Desperate Housewives of Shakespeare
By Jim and Jane Jeffries
Desperate Housewives of Shakespeare is a one-act play that needs 9 performers (6 women, 3 men). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 9 performers
- Roles
- 6 women, 3 men
- Cast notes
- 2-3 m, 6 w
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- comedy
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
Okay, these housewives may not be real, but they are desperate. Shakespeare has been manipulating and twisting their lives for six plays now, and they desperately want to escape his evil machinations. But are they desperate enough to commit murder? Shakespeare has been found dead: stabbed, poisoned, starved, choked, bitten by an asp, and even turned into a baardvark. Lady Macbeth, Juliet, Kate, Rosalind, Cleopatra, and Titania all had the means and the motive to kill Shakespeare, but who really
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