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Imogen Says Nothing

  • Aditi Brennan Kapil
  • Full Length Play, Adaptations (Shakespeare), Comedy, 16th Century / Elizabethan
  • 7M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573707049

A feminist hijacking of Shakespeare that investigates the voices that have been absented from our canon, and the consequences of cutting them.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Adaptations (Shakespeare), Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: 16th Century / Elizabethan
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre
A revisionist comedy in verse and prose featuring Imogen, a character who only appears in the first folio of William Shakespeare's Much Adoe About Nothing, speaks no lines, and is probably a typo. A feminist hijacking of Shakespeare that investigates the voices that have been absented from our canon, and the consequences of cutting them.
REVIEWS:

"A fierce feminist fable. The playwright has spun bits of Elizabethan trivia into a profound meditation on women in society, gender roles in general, persecution, creativity, posterity and the nature of theater itself."

 Hartford Courant

"Imogen Says Nothing is beautifully conceived, written and executed."

 New Haven Register

Premiere Production: Imogen Says Nothing premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT in January 2017, under the direction of Laurie Woolery.

Characters

  • Casting: 7M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Multicultural casting, Non-Traditional casting
  • Casting Notes: Please practice subversive, historically inaccurate, casting.

  • IMOGEN - a Bear passing as a human.

    HUMANS (also play...)
    JOHN HEMMINGES - an actor (Leonato)
    HENRY CONDELL - an actor (Don John/Antigonus)
    ALEXANDER COOKE - an actor (Beatrice)
    NICHOLAS TOOLEY - an actor (Hero)
    RICHARD BURBAGE - an actor (Don Pedro)
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - actor & playwright (Messenger/Friar) double cast with Warden)
    CRIER - Owns Bears (Conrade, Benedick) double cast with Isaac
    ANNA ROOS - Queen Anne's Danish maid

    BEARS (double cast with humans...)
    BEAR ON ICE - an escaped Bear (Anne)
    HARRY HUNKS - The Blind Elder (Richard)
    NED WHITING - The Noble Beast (John)

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    A revisionist comedy in verse and prose featuring Imogen, a character who only appears in the first folio of William Shakespeare's Much Adoe About Nothing, speaks no lines, and is probably a typo. A feminist hijacking of Shakespeare that investigates the voices that have been absented from our canon, and the consequences of cutting them.

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