Stage Blood
by Charles Ludlam
Synopsis
A family acting company continuously tours Hamlet in the U.S.
Carleton Stone, Sr., once a great Hamlet, is now dissolute and playing the ghost.
He tries to make his reluctant son the Hamlet he once was.
Here is a Hamlet within a Hamlet within a Hamlet and a murder mystery for people with stage blood in their veins.
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FEE: $75 per performance.
Press Reviews
"Hamlet with a happy ending [in]... A crisply wrapped comic package."
— The New York Times
"Tight, consistent, madcap literary and terribly funny,... the very essence of clownmanship."
— New York Post
"Abounds with clever twists of plot... It's a play within a play that mixes theatrical performance with life. Village Voice "Hamlet and Freud on wry."
— WWD
"Abounds with clever twists of plot... It's a play within a play that mixes theatrical performance with life. Village Voice "Hamlet and Freud on wry."
— WWD
Publication
Stage Blood is a comedy play written by Charles Ludlam and published by Samuel French (1979).
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Samuel French · 1979 · 72 pp
Performance Rights
Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)
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