Comedy from the plays: Mercutio, Jaques, Viola, Helena, Eliza, Smirnov. The situation explained, the text in full, the scene around it ready to rehearse.
Romeo and Juliet · William Shakespeare
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an…
Mercutio · 327 words · 3 min spoken
As You Like It · William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His…
Jaques · 211 words · 2 min spoken
Twelfth Night · William Shakespeare
I left no ring with her; what means this lady? Fortune forbid my outside have not charm’d her! She made good view of me, indeed, so much, That methought her…
Viola · 207 words · 2 min spoken
A Midsummer Night's Dream · William Shakespeare
How happy some o’er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so; He will not know what all but he…
Helena · 208 words · 2 min spoken
A Midsummer Night's Dream · William Shakespeare
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme,…
Puck · 94 words · 1 min spoken
The Taming of the Shrew · William Shakespeare
Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow, And dart not scornful glances from those eyes To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor: It blots thy beauty as…
Katherina · 364 words · 3 min spoken
Twelfth Night · William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again, it had a dying fall; O,…
Orsino · 114 words · 1 min spoken
Pygmalion · George Bernard Shaw
Not a bit. It never did him no harm what I could see. But then he did not keep it up regular. [Cheerfully] On the burst, as you might say, from time to time.…
Eliza · 150 words · 1 min spoken
The Bear · Anton Chekhov, translated by Julius West
[Teasing her] Silly and rude! I don’t know how to behave before women! Madam, in my time I’ve seen more women than you’ve seen sparrows! Three times I’ve…
Smirnov · 400 words · 3 min spoken
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