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Sassenach by Ronnie Dykstra |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. Eleven roles (plus two actors who play themselves before taking on characters), designed to be playable by a cast of three plus a cameo from the director. |
Run Time | Around 34 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A spoof 'English' Macbeth based shamelessly on Shakespeare's tragedy, stealing many of his famous words and taking disgraceful liberties. One-act, single set (largely a living room). |
Synopsis | When a witch prophesises that Arthur Robinson could become chairman of the bath plug manufacturer he works for, his wife Samantha coerces him into speeding the process along by having his boss clobbered with a saucepan. His subsequent rise to power is hindered by the blood on their hands and rival employee Andrew Duff. |
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The Secret Testament of John Shakespeare by Martin Lytton |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Historical drama (on the boundary between a one-act and a full-length play). Single set. Lots of historical detail amidst a passionate story. |
Synopsis | William Shakespeare's wife drops in on her in-laws to mind her Father-in-Law while his wife visits a friend. The Informer James Langrake, who was responsible for the fall in Shakespeare senior's fortunes, calls in unannounced and nearly finds evidence to bring death to the household. |
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Shakespeare Re-imagined by Damian Trasler & David Lovesy |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Both characters are written male, but could be feminised if necessary! |
Run Time | Around 3 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy sketch. |
Synopsis | Playwright Dennis uses inspiration from one of the greats to help with his show titles... |
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Shakespeare's Last Act by Joan Greening |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. Three male characters (so possibly a counterpoint to the three female characters in Joan Greening's Three Women and Shakespeare's Will.) |
Run Time | Around 36 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Witty one-act comedy play in a single set (and not much of that), with plenty of Shakespeare references and a poignant ending. |
Synopsis | Shakespeare is working on his final play, Henry VIII, collaborating with John Fletcher. The working relationship is tetchy. Shakespeare's friend, Richard Burbage, assumes he will get the lead, but Fletcher has other ideas. Shakespeare comes up with a plot to get his friend the part. |
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Shakespeare's Women by Jonathan Edgington |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Four on-stage characters plus four phone voices (which could be recordings). |
Run Time | Around 13 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short comedy play. |
Synopsis | Best-selling author, acknowledged world authority on Shakespeare and totally irresistible to women, Herbie has the world at his feet. Or rather, he did, until three mysterious visitors arrive late at night with a mind-blowing offer... |
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Smoke and Mirrors by E. C. Chapman Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 1. Minimum total without doubling = 1. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 12 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Dramatic monologue recounted by a theatre director. |
Synopsis | A director talks through the trials and tribulations on an outdoor production of one of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays. |
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The Taming of the Shrew [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Shakespeare's play efficiently cut down without damaging the flow of the story. A comedy in the renaissance sense of ordinary people, witty dialogue and a happy ending. Contains Shakespearean insults. |
Synopsis | Bianca has many suitors, but her father won't let her marry until he has also given away the hand of her hot-tempered and uncontrollable elder sister Katharina. While Lucentio concocts a plan to win Bianca as his wife, Petruchio decides to wed Katharina and subdue her shrewish nature. |
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The Tempest [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus. The character list, like all of Shakespeare's work, is male-heavy. That has not prevented excellent productions by majority female casts! |
Run Time | Around 61 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Abridgement of Shakespeare on the boundary between a one-act and a full-lengh play. All words remain Shakespeare's, with one short speech added by the abridger to facilitate a character exit. |
Synopsis | Since being usurped as Duke of Milan by his brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have lived on a deserted island. With the help of the spirit Ariel, he causes a tempest that shipwrecks his passing enemies. He aims to regain his dukedom and marry Miranda to Ferdinand, son of the King of Naples. |
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Three Women and Shakespeare's Will by Joan Greening Best Seller 2022 Edinburgh Fringe production received a 5-Star review from Arts Reviews Edinburgh. |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Quick-witted one-act comedy. Single set requiring only a few items of furniture. |
Synopsis | After the death of William Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway is visited by two women with shocking revelations. Both claim to have known her husband intimately, and each want a piece of Will's will. |
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To Be Hamlet by Olivia Arieti |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Ten-minute play. Simplest set - a bare stage - simple props. |
Synopsis | An actor struggles with the role of Hamlet as Hamlet struggles with his destiny. |
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