Pyramus and Thisbe
By Paul Caywood
Pyramus and Thisbe is a one-act play that needs 6 performers. Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 6 performers
- Cast notes
- 6 actors
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- adaptation shakespeare
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
The legend of Pyramus and Thisby is known today primarily because William Shakespeare used it in his comedy "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." As a part of Shakespeare’s play, six workers, sometimes called “mechanicals” or “clowns,” decide to present a play for the festivities that will follow the wedding of the Duke of Athens. In this one-act, we see the mechanicals getting their parts, then rehearsing in the woods the night before the wedding. Of course, these men know nothing about acting or play p
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