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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeares Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canadas Queens University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeares best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down. Constance Ledbelly is the beleaguered spinster academic, and unlikely heroine who embarks on a quest for Shakespearean origins and, ultimately, her own identity. When she deciphers an ancient and neglected manuscript, Constance is propelled through a very modern rabbit hole and lands smack in the middle of the tragic turning points of each play in turn. Her attempts to save first Desdemona, then Juliet, from their harrowing fates, result in a wild unpredictable ride through comedy and near-tragedy, as mild-mannered Constance learns to love, sword-fight, dance Renaissance-style, and master a series of disguises Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) a gender-bendy, big-hearted and crazily intelligent romp, where irony and anger sing in perfect harmony with innocence and poignancy.

Written by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Directed by Clare Preuss

Featuring
Katie Avery
Carman Lam Brar
Telek Rogan
Loughran Thorson-Looysen
Reid Vanier

Preview Wed. Oct. 4 ($10 at the door)
Oct. 5, 6, 7
Oct. 11 (pay-what-you-decide at the door)
Oct. 12, 13, 14
Oct. 18, 19, 20, 21