Excellent Beauty & other short plays, including How To Avoid A Tragedy

How to Avoid a Tragedy: a 30-minute, happy-ending romp through Shakespeare’s four great tragedies (3m, 1f, winner of the Hydrae Prize 2003, and first produced at the Tabard Theatre, London). “Very witty, light and entertaining” (Royal Shakespeare Company). Excellent Beauty, a 30-minute battle between the sexes (1m, 1f, first produced at the Union Theatre, London). “Great stuff, but I got the feeling some of the men in the audience were a bit uncomfortable with it” (Southwark News). The Apple, a 20-minute tale as old as mankind (2m, 1f, first produced at the Tabard Theatre, London). Lear’s Fool (see Plays derived from Shakespeare). Lady Macbeth on the Underground: a one-hour play in which Marie – an out-of work actress – interviews passengers on the Underground, and gradually reveals the funny and sad details of her own life (can be acted by 1f and 2m. The interviews were first performed at the Union Theatre, London). “Wilson’s excellently written ‘Surveying the Passengers’ is like a joke that a stand-up comedian embellishes at regular intervals” (Time Out).

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