Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
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.
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.
Cast
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Constance Ledbelly: Babett Schultze
Desdemona: Deborah Leibundgut Othello: Bastin Heß Juliet: Rebekka Heberlein Romeo: Dennis Wienert Chorus: Kathrin Findling, Dagmar-Marie Hasenkamp, Jeff Smith Jill, a student: Rebekka Heberlein Iago: Benjamin Stutz Ramona, a student: Kathleen Schwotzer Tybalt: Jeff Smith Mercutio: Daniel Born Professor Claude Night: Neil Kahl A soldier of Cyprus: Dennis Wienert Juliet’s nurse: Maike Baumgärtner Servant: Kathleen Schwotzer Ghost: Kathrin Findling Director: Lars Heiler Assistant Director: Jacqueline Wendel |
Fight Director & Choreographer: Jeff
Smith
Lighting and Sound: Heiko Helwig, Andrea Polanski Stage design: RBC Costume design: Mika Weinrich, Barbara Neuberg Prop design: Melanie Röper, Andrea Polanski Make-Up: Dagmar Marie Hasenkamp, Sabine Krause, Anne-Kathrin, Paddags, Julia Schmidt, Julia Textor Poster: Peter Carqueville Website: Peter Carqueville, Sabine Krause, Deborah Leibundgut |
