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A Tale of Two Cities (Quinton)

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  1m

Charles Dickens, Everett Quinton

Everett Quinton
Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens

"An always fascinating, sometimes funny, and finally moving evening." - The New York Times

An aspiring transvestite club performer opens his door and finds - "what in the gay hell!?!"- a baby left on his doorstep. "He's a straight baby, but we can co-exist. I know it can be done." And the man proceeds to tell the baby a Grimm fairy tale. W…

A Tale of Two Cities (Quinton)

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An aspiring transvestite club performer opens his door and finds - "what in the gay hell!?!"- a baby left on his doorstep. "He's a straight baby, but we can co-exist. I know it can be done." And the man proceeds to tell the baby a Grimm fairy tale. When this proves insufficient to stop the baby's crying, the man performs the entire narrative of Dickens' classic of the French revolution, playing all the roles male and female!
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"An always fascinating, sometimes funny, and finally moving evening." - The New York Times

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Charles Dickens

Everett Quinton

Everett Quinton
Everett Quinton has recently appeared in The Witch of Edmonton at Red Bull Theater, as Florence Wexler in Devil Boys from Beyond at New World Stages, as Dr. Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., and as Jacob Marley in The McCarter ...
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