Shakespeare on Trial
By Anthony Giordano
Shakespeare on Trial is a one-act play that needs 15 to 18 performers (6 women, 9 men, 3 any gender). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 15 to 18 performers
- Roles
- 6 women, 9 men, 3 any gender
- Cast notes
- Approx. 9 m, 6 w, 3 flexible, extras which can be audience members
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
With graduation fast approaching, two groups of students of Bellefonte High confront each other in an attempt to influence the next year’s curriculum of the school. With recollections of past bullying, revealed secret lives, hinted-at romances, and numerous quotations from Shakespeare’s most famous plays, these teenagers set up a mock trial to decide if Shakespeare should be studied next year. Like current day Montagues and Capulets, the students do plenty of verbal fencing -- with a little Rome
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