Shakescenes: Short plays for Shakespeare lovers

Four short plays drawing on Shakespeares works and our modern-day use of them.In Twenty-Minute Tragedy minor cast members take over a production of Timon of Athens and lead it in a new direction.Sprite Fight takes place backstage at a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream in the aftermath of a confrontation among the sprites.In A Shakespearean Fragment a shady fixer is trying to negotiate the sale of a fragment of something that was once precious to The Bard.Loosely Titus presents Titus Andronicus as a game show with 33 onstage deaths three hands cut off and a really interesting cooking lesson.The plays work together to make a fascinating evening of theatre or can be performed separately in programs with other plays.