CAST: Flexible cast of 29 (11M, 12F, plus 6 roles that can be any), optional doubling
SET: Bare stage
TIME: About 70 minutes
Script:
$8.75 each Director’s book: $27.50 each
ROYALTY:
$65 First Performance
$65 Each Additional Performance
SET: Bare stage
TIME: About 70 minutes
Script:
$8.75 each Director’s book: $27.50 each
ROYALTY:
$65 First Performance
$65 Each Additional Performance
Put many of Shakespeare’s tragic characters together in a self-help group and you get a smart, laugh-out-loud comedy that’s also quite educational! Salomonsson studied at the National Shakespeare Conservatory and has combined her loves for Shakespeare, teaching, and writing in this creative play.
Tragic characters Ophelia, Desdemona, King Lear, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Romeo, Juliet, and others seek support at the Tragedians Anonymous group led by Prospero, where the meeting’s theme is “Identify those who wrong us and those who we wrong.” The characters proceed to confront the other characters in their plays, including Iago, Shakespeare’s worst scoundrel. They’re also forced to face their Fatal Flaws, who come to life onstage! When the confrontations don’t work out as planned, the tragic characters seek revenge! Plans go awry, and the group members are ultimately forced to make some difficult decisions about fate, forgiveness and foolery.
This is a fantastic comic send-up and tribute to Shakespeare’s tragedies that also re-familiarizes us with the storylines and characters from some of Shakespeare’s greatest works.
Winner of the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest
Tragic characters Ophelia, Desdemona, King Lear, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Romeo, Juliet, and others seek support at the Tragedians Anonymous group led by Prospero, where the meeting’s theme is “Identify those who wrong us and those who we wrong.” The characters proceed to confront the other characters in their plays, including Iago, Shakespeare’s worst scoundrel. They’re also forced to face their Fatal Flaws, who come to life onstage! When the confrontations don’t work out as planned, the tragic characters seek revenge! Plans go awry, and the group members are ultimately forced to make some difficult decisions about fate, forgiveness and foolery.
This is a fantastic comic send-up and tribute to Shakespeare’s tragedies that also re-familiarizes us with the storylines and characters from some of Shakespeare’s greatest works.
Winner of the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest
Additional products available:
Director’s book: $27.50 each
Director’s book: $27.50 each
Outrageous Fortune
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MICHELLE NONYELU
PAPHOS CYPRUS
PAPHOS CYPRUS
ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL
ENGLEWOOD, CO
ENGLEWOOD, CO
WIDEFIELD SCHOOL DIST #3
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
ARVADA, CO
ARVADA, CO
THE INT'L SCHOOL OF PENANG
PENANG MALAYSIA
PENANG MALAYSIA
RENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT 403
RENTON, WA
RENTON, WA
GEMMA SHAPLESKI
WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND
WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND
SOUTH BALDWIN CMTY THEATRE
GULF SHORES, AL
GULF SHORES, AL
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