Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Winter 2016
About the play
The life of Constance Ledbelly, assistant professor at Queen’s University, is a mess: her unfinished PhD project, in which she argues that Shakespeare’s tragedies Othello and Romeo and Juliet must be based on two older, unknown comedies, which she suspects to be encoded in an old manuscript, has earned her a reputation for being an academic crackpot. When her incompetent and narcissistic boss Claude Night, whom she secretly loves, disappoints her professionally and emotionally, Constance is on the verge of depression. But by an unexpected supernatural turn, she finds herself in a Shakespearean dreamscape and sets out to save the heroines Desdemona and Juliet from their tragic deaths, thereby re-writing the plots of Othello and Romeo and Juliet and coming to terms with her own life-story.
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s play is a clever and fast-paced comedy which plunders Shakespeare’s works irreverently, mixing romantic love scenes, salacious sword fights and uncanny encounters in graveyards at midnight with ironic attacks on university life.
Performance dates:
January 23rd / 26th / 27th
February 2nd / 3rd
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s play is a clever and fast-paced comedy which plunders Shakespeare’s works irreverently, mixing romantic love scenes, salacious sword fights and uncanny encounters in graveyards at midnight with ironic attacks on university life.
Performance dates:
January 23rd / 26th / 27th
February 2nd / 3rd
Cast & Crew
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Constance Ledbelly: Julia Rausch
Desdemona: Christine Decker Othello: Marvin Herbring Juliet: Joanna Borrée Romeo: Dennis Wienert Chorus: Julia Stremmel, Josef Vollmer, Sarah Jäger, Saskia Lediger, Vanessa Kretschmer Jill, a student: Saskia Lediger Iago: Victor Weidle Ramona, a student: Sarah Jäger Tybalt: Ricarda Kemke |
Mercutio: Denise Dingens, Josef Vollmer
Professor Claude Night: Victor Weidle A soldier of Cyprus: Saskia Lediger Juliet’s nurse: Sarah Jäger Servant: Julia Stremmel Ghost: Frauke Valendzik Director: Lars Heiler Assistant: Vanessa Kretschmer |
