All's Will That Ends Well

Full-Lengths

By: Craig Sodaro
Cast: 5 M, 12 F, 1 flexible (With doubling: 4 M, 10 F, 1 flexible)
Performance Time: Approximately 75 mins, 69 pgs.

FARCE. In this sequel to My Friend Will, Shakespeare is still on the lam after poaching a rabbit, but this time Titania the witch sends Shakespeare to a Renaissance faire, where he suddenly finds himself inside a fortuneteller’s tent. The Renaissance faire’s director hires Shakespeare to play the character of the Rat Catcher while a student is assigned the role of Shakespeare. Complications and mistaken identities abound, and nothing is what it seems as the real Shakespeare is kidnapped, tied to a chair, and forced to watch nonstop reality-TV episodes of “The Real Housewives of Cutthroat, Kentucky.” Delirious after viewing so much mindless drivel, Shakespeare must find a way to escape this chamber of horrors and return to 1585 and his home in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Chicago-born playwright Craig Sodaro has published more than 100 plays, some of which have been performed internationally. Mr. Sodaro studied playwriting at Marquette University and worked as a teacher for 33 years. He now writes plays full-time and lives in the Colorado Rockies with his wife Sue.