Overview
After their in-performance deaths, six female Shakespearean characters find themselves in a holding area until the play they are a character in gets revived by another Shakespeare company so that they can (re)live their tragedy over (and over) again. It’s a comic romp that evokes Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” meets Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author” meets “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”
Casting & Production
Casting
TAMORA – From the play Titus Andronicus. Sensible. Blood around her mid-section because she was stabbed by Titus.
JOAN – From the play Henry VI, pt. 1. Resolute. Speaks in French and English. Covered in black ash because she was burned at the stake.
JULIET – From the play Romeo and Juliet. Melodramatic. Has a dagger between her breasts.
LADY MACBETH – From the play Macbeth. Paranoid. Bruises on her face because of her suicide.
OPHELIA – From the play Hamlet. Unhinged. Singer. Soaking wet because she drowned in a nearby river.
CLEOPATRA – From the play Antony and Cleopatra. Haughty and sensual. Has snakes draped around her neck because she placed them there as a method of suicide.
DIRECTOR – Affected, British accent. Any gender. Pretentious and lofty.
