Stage Blood
by Charles Ludlam

Stage Blood Book Cover
Stage Blood Cover

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

PublisherSamuel French
BindingPaperback
ISBN-139780573690693
ISBN-100573690693

Stage Blood is a comedy play written by Charles Ludlam and published by Samuel French.

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Fee:Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)

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