Don't Say Macbeth!
By Burton Bumgarner
Don't Say Macbeth! is a one-act play that needs 9 to 40 performers. Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 9 to 40 performers
- Cast notes
- Widely flexible cast from 9 to 40
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- comedy
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
Picked this show? Get a rehearsal schedule built from your script
Opening soon? Build the program
Synopsis
A poor student is struggling to read Shakespeare's great tragedy, "Macbeth," while in a coffee shop next door to a theater. The student gets a study boost from waitress, who was an English major, and four customers, who are actors, as they act out the Scottish tragedy in fast-paced farce. Soon, a pompous actor who has just finished a Shakespeare matinee next door, enters and tells of the "Scottish curse," and all of the unfortunate events that surround the play's past productions. Actors portray
Request performance rights from Eldridge Publishing
Similar shows by cast size
- Christmas All Over the Place (9+ performers)
- Where's Julie? (9+ performers)
- Student Written Disaster (9+ performers)
- Babes in Gangland or The Godmother (9+ performers)
- Midge Goes to the Movies (9+ performers)
- Shakespeare Unbound (9+ performers)