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TRIPLE FALSEHOOD

2019 - 2021

(full-length play | unproduced)

A new play about an old play, impossible dreams, and the post-#metoo moment

One-sentence synopsis: A woman investigating a lost Shakespeare play gets more than she bargained for when her research leads her into the story itself, making her an active agent in its telling.

 

One-paragraph synopsis: “This is a story told in and out of time…”

Miranda is a PhD candidate researching Shakespeare’s lost play ’Cardenio.’ Chasing the play in and out of footnotes, rehearsal rooms, and forgotten corners of history, she tries to come to terms with a play no one has seen for four-hundred years. Along the way, she meets two playwrights lost in the wilderness of an idea, a knight hellbent on stopping them from ruining his book, and a theatre director with a very particular agenda to push. TRIPLE FALSEHOOD attempts to reclaim a space for women in Early Modern Drama, and asks how do you properly look for a play if no one knows what it looks like or where it is?

A fierce, funny, and smart riff on Shakespeare, academia, and the post-#metoo moment. 

Image: Glenn Saunders

Image: Glenn Saunders

Read the Writer's Notes

June 2020 Reading program

Reading List

 

DEVELOPMENT

"TRIPLE FALSEHOOD" has been developed in several workshops and readings. 

September 2019 workshop: with Joshua Bell, Benjamin Hickey,
Remy Prichard, Floyd Throssell

March 2020 online reading: with Bo Chung, Celia Handscombe,
Alexis Longley, Aimee Marich, Katherine McLure, Verity Wells

 

June 2020 online reading: with Bo Chung, Celia Handscombe,
Alexis Longley, Aimee Marich, Verity Wells 

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