Shakespeares
By Colleen Shaddox
Shakespeares is a one-act play that needs 8 to 9 performers (3 women, 5 men, 1 any gender). Licensed by Eldridge Publishing.
- Type
- one-act play
- Cast size
- 8 to 9 performers
- Roles
- 3 women, 5 men, 1 any gender
- Cast notes
- 5 m, 3 w, 1 flexible
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- comedy
- Licensor
- Eldridge Publishing
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Synopsis
William Shakespeare retired at about age 48. Why did this prolific genius stop writing? How did he get along with his long-neglected wife, Anne, once he gave up the stage? “The Shakespeares” imagines what The Bard’s last years were like in Stratford-upon-Avon. The play is full of inside jokes for Shakespeare fans. But even for those unfamiliar with his plays, there are laughs (and a few tears) as we watch this profoundly mismatched couple try to make a go of it. Shakespeare’s confidante, daughte
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