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Something Rotten in Denmark

10 Minute Play, Comedy  /  2w, 4m

Ann Karine (AKA Annie G.)

A rollicking farce, this is a rehearsal of the original Hamlet in Shakespeare's time but with many anachronisms. The ghost is here and Hamlet is in drag. The story unfolds with hyperbole upon hyperbole and with gargantuan gestures of every sort. It ends with everybody in a kind of square dance tossi…

Something Rotten in Denmark

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    10 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences, Adult, Senior, Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18)
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival

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Summary
A rollicking farce, this is a rehearsal of the original Hamlet in Shakespeare's time but with many anachronisms. The ghost is here and Hamlet is in drag. The story unfolds with hyperbole upon hyperbole and with gargantuan gestures of every sort. It ends with everybody in a kind of square dance tossing candy kisses to the audience, leaving them smiling from ear to ear. In Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, 18th Series.
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Performing Groups
  • Time Period 16th Century / Elizabethan
  • Setting Simple unit set
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 10 minutes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

"I laughed, and then laughed, and then laughed again." - AG

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

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Ann Karine (AKA Annie G.)

Ann Karine (AKA Annie G.)
Ann Karine is a NYC playwright. Her play Hermaphroditie was chosen to be in the Best American Short Plays Of 2002-2003. Deadline, a new play, is a hilarious farce and send up of Wall Street. Incommunicado, Inc. or Edge Stew was performed at the Cardboard Box Collaborative in ...
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