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Blood Red Roses

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  5w, 5m

Don Nigro

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Blood Red Roses

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    5w, 5m
  • Duration
    Duration
    More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

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Summary
The story of the Pre-Raphaelite painters and writers is told in this dark, funny, and moving tale. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's love for his beautiful model Lizzy Siddal, the tragic love triangle of John Ruskin, Ruskin's wife Effie and the great painter John Everett Millais, Ruskin's later doomed love for the young Rose LaTouche and his subsequent madness, the lives of William Morris and his enigmatic wife Jane, and the poets Swinburne, and Christina Rossetti all intertwine.
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  • Time Period Victorian (British and American)
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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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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