Publisher's blurb:
How could you bear a partnership so vile? – Theseus, in Racine’s Phèdre
The play’s the thing! In The Lesser Players’ Tale, a grubby troupe of Renaissance actors take their best play, a racy tragedy, on the road. Along the way, they’ll furiously adapt that play to the absurd whims of each new audience.
Participants will perform The Lusty Queen (a sloppy, 10-minute adaptation of Racine’s Phèdre) many times as they scramble to master the material while holding their little family together across danger and opportunity.
Note: Good acting is emphatically NOT required–there’s no time for it in a ten minute play with improvised dialogue that includes:
• A treacherous plot to frame a good Prince for unspeakable deeds
• A star-crossed romance and a stepmother’s skeevy love for her skeeved-out stepson
• A King who is dead…or is he?
• Two brisk deaths at sea, witnessed by a clown
• Adoption! Suicide! Scheming servants!
• And, of course, a lusty Queen
From the introduction:
Materials are available in English and Danish, but the facilitator’s script is in English only.
User summary:
The game is distributed as two PDF files:
34-page English Document
15-page Danish Document