Description

The Colonial Theatre’s 2025 reading series

SHAKESPEARE'S SUMMER SHORTS

will feature two comedic one acts: 

PERSONS OF THE PLAY

by the Colonial dramaturg, Robert Durwood Madison

and

SHAKESPEARE'S DEAD DAMES

by David Overton

Persons of the Play serves as a prelude, introducing and contextualizing the characters in Shakespeare’s Dead Dames.  Shakespeare’s Dames find themselves stuck in a holding room until they are fortunate to re(live) their tragedy in another production of the play they die in.   It’s a comic romp that evokes The Twilight Zone meets Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Both plays incorporate verse and everyday vernacular 
RUNNING TIME: approximately 75 mins.
 

Shakespeare’s Summer Shorts runs

August 13th through 16th

in Wilcox Park, Westerly, RI 

. Both shows are FREE and FAMILY FRIENDLY.

Wednesday August 13th at 6pm

Thursday August 14th at 6pm

Friday, August 15th at 6pm

Saturday, August 16th at 6pm