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Warburton's Cook

Short Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  2w, 1m

Don Nigro

In Tales From The Red Rose Inn & Other Plays.

Warburton's Cook

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 1m
  • Duration
    Duration
    10 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

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Summary
John Warburton was an English antiquary who possessed many rare Elizabethan and Jacobean scripts, including the only extant copies of several plays said to have been written by Shakespeare. These manuscripts were lost forever when his illiterate but devoted cook, Betsy Baker, burned some and used the rest to line pie bottoms. This funny and powerful ten minute play takes place at the moment Warburton discovers what happened to his manuscripts. Includes dramaturgical note. In Tales From The Red Rose Inn & Other Plays.
Cast Attributes
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Performing Groups
DORRY ROACH - a housemaid
BETSY BAKER - a cook and housekeeper
JOHN WARBURTON - an antiquarian
  • Time Period 18th Century
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Additional Features No intermission
  • Duration 10 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

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Don Nigro

Don Nigro

Don Nigro is among the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in the world and has continued to build a deeply interrelated and diverse body of dramatic literature, employing a wide variety of dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He has written ...

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