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Everyman (Bates)

Short Play  /  6w, 11any gender (adult)

Esther Willard Bates

Edited by Esther Willard Bates

This is the best known and most beautiful of the English medieval morality plays.

Everyman (Bates)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6w, 11any gender (adult)
  • Duration
    Duration
    60 minutes (1 hour)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Fables/Folktales, Period
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior

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Summary
This is the best known and most beautiful of the English medieval morality plays. It is one of the great classics of dramatic literature.
History
Everyman was revived recently by Ben Greet and Edith Wynne Mattheson, and in Germany and Austria in a version by the Austrian poet and playwright, Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
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Keywords
Performing Groups
MESSENGER
EVERYMAN
GOD (ADONAI)
DEATH
FELLOWSHIP
COUSIN
KINDERED (WOMAN)
GOODS
GOOD-DEEDS (WOMAN)
STRENGTH (WOMAN)
DISCRETION
FIVE-WITS
BEAUTY (WOMAN)
KNOWLEDGE (WOMAN)
CONFESSION (WOMAN)
ANGEL
DOCTOR
  • Time Period 16th Century / Elizabethan
  • Setting Not named. Simply a stage suggesting the world.
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Duration 60 minutes (1 hour)

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)
  • Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)
  • Chorus Size N/A (Not a musical)

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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