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Bomb-itty of Errors, The

Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jason Catalano, Gregory J. Qaiyum, Erik Weiner, Jeffrey Qaiyum

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Full Length Play, Comedy

4m or f

ISBN: 9780573698446

"This energetic twist on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is a thrill, GRADE: A!" - Entertainment Weekly

"A rap version of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors that pulses with wit, savvy and a sublime sense of its own ridiculousness...You'll be enchanted." - The Telegraph
Winner! Jefferson Award in Chicago
Winner! Grand Jury Prize at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen

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$8.95
: Acting Edition
$14.95
: Large Print
$16.95
: Stage Manager

Minimum Fee: $75 per performance


Optional Music Fee: $15 per performance


Description

Full Length Play

Comedy

Adaptations (Shakespeare)

90 minutes

Time Period - Contemporary, Present Day, 16th Century / Elizabethan

Settings Of Play - The play takes place in Ephesus, a fictional modern, urban city. There is a diagram of the original set displayed in the script.

FEATURES / CONTAINS

Audience Participation/Interactive, Play w/ Music

Interior Set

Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes, Period Costumes

CAUTIONS

No Special Cautions

TARGET AUDIENCE

Appropriate for all audiences, Adult, Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18)

PERFORMANCE GROUP

High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Dinner Theatre, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Large Stage, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups

RECOGNITION / AWARDS

From Off-Broadway, From West End

Nominee! Best Lyrics at the Drama Desk Awards
Nominee! Outer Critics Circle Awards
Winner! Jefferson Award in Chicago
Winner! Grand Jury Prize at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen
The Bomb-itty of Errors is an award-winning Ad-Rap-Tation, hip-hop theatre retelling of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. The show lasts one hour and thirty minutes and is part play and part rap concert. Refreshingly current but retaining the integrity of the original.

"This energetic twist on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is a thrill, GRADE: A!" - Entertainment Weekly

"This fantastic show is one of the most entertaining, slick and inventive you'll see on the Fringe this year—and it has some clever insights to shed on the Bard's classic farce too...Does what so many productions fail to do—it makes Shakespeare funny. Not just chuckling, yes-I-see-this-part-is-meant-to-be-comical funny, but laugh out loud, hollering and cheering funny...The language is as clever, sharp and twisty as Shakespeare's." - Edinburgh Evening News

"Nothing short of brilliant. Clever writing, rhythmic flow, witty musical allusions and intelligent humor...the show is thoroughly entertaining." - MTV

"A rap version of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors that pulses with wit, savvy and a sublime sense of its own ridiculousness...You'll be enchanted." - The Telegraph

"Bomb-itty is witty, lewd and altogether new. Think 'The Beastie Boys from Syracuse'." - The New Yorker

"A stroke of genius...the language fizzes with new life, it's irreverent and yet in tune with Shakespeare's original, it's clever and witty and fast." - The Times

"Bomb-itty of Errors gives the bard's slapstick farce a Generation-Y rejuvenation...scores very high on sexy-party index...You're carried along by the energetic tumble of words." - The Wall Street Journal

Characters

CASTING

4m or f

CASTING ATTRIBUTES

All Male, All Female, Ensemble cast, Expandable casting, Flexible casting, Room for Extras

CASTING NOTES

Parts for up to 20 performers

CHORUS SIZE

No Chorus

Rental Materials

MUSICAL STYLE

Pop/Rock, Operetta

VOCAL DEMANDS

Moderate

Instrumental and "Scratch" Track CDs
Author(s)
Jordan Allen-Dutton

Jordan Allen-Dutton

Jordan Allen-Dutton, three time Emmy-nominated writer/producer, graduated from Tisch at NYU in '99 (recipient of the Artist Scholar Award.) While at NYU he created The Bomb-itty of Errors, a hip-hop add-rap-tation of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, which became a smash Off-Broadway hit, performing in the West End in London, toured the US and Amsterdam (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critic's Circle ... view full profile

Erik Weiner

Erik Weiner

Erik Weiner is a three-time Emmy nominated and Peabody Award winning writer, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award winning actor. He was born and raised in San Francisco and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Mr. Weiner co-created and starred in The Bomb-itty of Errors, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, blending hip-hop and Shakespeare. The show has been performed in ... view full profile

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