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The Castrata

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  2w, 4m

Norman R. Shapiro, Eugene Scribe

Translated by Norman R. Shapiro

A beautiful, young and naive soprano masquerades as a man to gain entry into an ambitious cardinal's household. Her equally ambitious composer husband struggles with his much lamented but richly deserved artistic oblivion as well as his wife's threatened involvement with the cardinal's handsome neph…

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    Cast Size
    2w, 4m

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Summary
A beautiful, young and naive soprano masquerades as a man to gain entry into an ambitious cardinal's household. Her equally ambitious composer husband struggles with his much lamented but richly deserved artistic oblivion as well as his wife's threatened involvement with the cardinal's handsome nephew. Published in A Flea in Her Rear, or Ants in Her Pants and Other Vintage French Farces
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

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Author

Norman R. Shapiro

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Eugene Scribe

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