Events Description
By Ann-Marie MacDonald
A saucy & wickedly smart Canadian classic!
Part of RMTC’s Shakespeare Fest
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canada’s Queen’s University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down.
Constance Ledbelly is the beleaguered “spinster” academic, and unlikely heroine who embarks on a quest for Shakespearean origins and, ultimately, her own identity. When she deciphers an ancient and neglected manuscript, Constance is propelled through a very modern rabbit hole and lands smack in the middle of the tragic turning points of each play in turn. Her attempts to save first Desdemona, then Juliet, from their harrowing fates, result in a wild unpredictable ride through comedy and near-tragedy, as mild-mannered Constance learns to love, sword-fight, dance Renaissance-style, and master a series of disguises.
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a gender-bendy, big-hearted and crazily intelligent romp, where irony and anger sing in perfect harmony with innocence and poignancy.
Michelle Boulet (Founding member of SIR, Timon of Athens, Henry V) directs a cast of five actors – playing 16 characters – Featuring RobYn Slade as Constance Ledbelly.
THE ARTISTIC TEAM
Directed by Michelle Boulet
Featuring RobYn Slade as Constance Ledbelly
with Tom Keenan, Ryan Miller, Laura Olafson and Joanne Roberts
Set Design: Brian Perchaluk
Lighting Design: Scott Henderson
Costume Design: Maureen Petkau
Sound Design: Davis Plett
HOW MUCH
Tickets : Adult $27, Seniors $22; Student $10 – $15
How to get tickets?
At the Door
WHEN & WHERE
Date & Time:
January 31 – February 15, 2020
Venue:
Colin Jackson Theatre – Prairie Theatre Exchange, 3rd Floor, Portage Place
Unit Y300-393 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
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