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    O Juliet, Juliet
    O Juliet, Juliet
    O Juliet, Juliet
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    O Juliet, Juliet

    By Robert Challis

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    A one scene comedy based around an audition night for Juliet. It involves a crusty Director with an ulcer, and his young nephew who is reading for Romeo. The nephew tries to exploit his relationship with the Director to further his romantic designs successively on each of the three prospective Juliets. The play provides a range of acting experiences for all the main actors, including short sections of Shakespeare's play. Ideal for a school play, competition, or as part of a one act play night. The play has been performed successfully for a season with an amateur theatre group, with the author as Director. Running time was 35 minutes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Challis
    Release dateJul 11, 2011
    ISBN9781465702807
    O Juliet, Juliet
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    Robert Challis

    The author is a retired school teacher living in Adelaide South Australia. He has written plays, humorous articles and short stories and a trilogy of full length historical novels under the title "Laconic Hearts".

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      O Juliet, Juliet - Robert Challis

      O JULIET, JULIET

      A One Act Play

      By Robert Challis

      Published by Robert Challis at Smashwords. Copyright 1990 Robert Challis

      If you are considering performing this play, for terms and conditions contact the author on robert.challis@bigpond.com.

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. Although this is a free book, it remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy at Smashwords.com, where they can also discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      O JULIET, JULIET

      A One-Act Play

      One Evening

      CHARACTERS:

      BEN

      A youth of around 16, basically a nice lad. His acting of Shakespeare needs to be good.

      JILL

      A girl around 16. A rather coarse person, dressed accordingly. Her Shakespeare is unfortunately also acted in her coarse character.

      JASMINE

      Also a girl of around 16. Refined and bitchy. Her Shakespeare is over-acted. More trendy dresser.

      FERGUS McALISTER

      Director of the play. He is a man in mid-thirties, with a very nervous, highly-strung personality.

      JULIE

      Apparently, a very nice girl of around 16. Wears a nice dress, and acts her Shakespeare parts very well.

      BIKIE

      Youth around 18. Very rough-looking bikie.

      The Stage is bare.

      Props required: One hip flask, three copies of Romeo and Juliet, a chair.

      (Curtain rises on empty stage. Lights are fairly low, and rise very gradually during Ben's opening speech. Ben enters left, looks around him, then goes to front of stage, taking up a theatrical pose to imagined audience. Alternatively, as occurred in original performance, Ben enters through audience, mounts stage, opens curtain, switches on lights, then takes up

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