Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet
Synopsis: In this Governor General’s Award-winning comedy, Constance Leadbelly, beleaguered academic, unlikely heroine and possessor of a magical manuscript, gets dragged headfirst into the tragic worlds of Romeo and Juliet and Othello. To return home, she must decode an ancient text, fend off overzealous lovers, navigate warring Cyprus and fair Verona, and rediscover lost parts of her own self.
Suitable for 12 years old and above.
‘A delicious Shakespearean romp down a modern rabbit hole.’
“One of the wildest and wooliest feminist reappraisals that the theatre has seen…” -The Globe and Mail
“Full of brilliance, wit, insight, and theatricality”
‘Ann-Marie MacDonald's play proves that it's possible to be silly and smart at the same time.’ -Joff Schmidt CBC 2020<
‘Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a gender-bendy, big-hearted and crazily intelligent romp’ -Jim Warren, American Shakespeare Centre.
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