Dead Men Grinning at the Moon and Other Plays

Dead Men Grinning At The Moon. Long one act. (1f , 2m). Shakespeare is drinking at the Inn of George Wilkins, a disreputable scoundrel who wants to be playwright. Wilkins thinks Shakespeare is in love with his young waitress, Mary, and blackmails Shakespeare into collaborating on a not very promising play called Pericles by threatening to throw Mary out on the street. Shakespeare turns a clumsy script into a haunting parable of the actual relationship between himself and Mary, while...
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Dead Men Grinning At The Moon. Long one act. (1f , 2m). Shakespeare is drinking at the Inn of George Wilkins, a disreputable scoundrel who wants to be playwright. Wilkins thinks Shakespeare is in love with his young waitress, Mary, and blackmails Shakespeare into collaborating on a not very promising play called Pericles by threatening to throw Mary out on the street. Shakespeare turns a clumsy script into a haunting parable of the actual relationship between himself and Mary, while Wilkins becomes increasingly resentful that Shakespeare is so much better than he is. A darkly funny play about the horrors of collaboration and the lost daughters who haunt Shakespeare's last plays.