As the nation celebrated 25 years since the historic reopening of the Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, who better to troll His Royal Bard-ness than Brighton’s very own purveyors of sapphic slapstick, the Lezzwood Players?!
We were delighted to present a brand new, typically Shakespearean tale of lust, murder, magic, vegan rock buns and entirely implausible cases of mistaken identity…
Comedy of Lezzers or Much Ado About Muffin or As You Dyke It
- Original script by Catriona Norrish
- Original Lyrics, musical arrangements and instrumentation by Dungareen Jean and Deb Fisher
- Directed by Catriona Norrish
Cast and Characters
- First Witch/Ghost – Lesley Russell
- Second Witch/Messenger – Jane Walker
- Third Witch/Jules – Kate Norrish
- Hamlet – Sarah McKinney-Green
- Puck Right Off/Fool – Cathy Beaumont
- Fairy Mustardseed/Ro – Caroline Pearce
- Fairy Moth/Ophelia – Deb Fisher
- Lady Macbeth/Bottom – Caroline Gibbs
- Titania/Third Murderer – Sophie Kay
- Voice of Skull – Dungareen Jean
Songs and Tune credits
- ‘Everyone Likes a Good Shakespeare Play’ – [Tune: America from West Side Story]
- ‘Make ‘Em Scream’ – [Tune: Make Em Laugh from Singin’ in the Rain]
- ‘Budge Up?’ – [Tune: There’s a Place from West Side Story]
- ‘Call Me (Don’t)’ – [Mash up using: Hello I Love You, Doors; Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepson; Don’t Call Me Baby, Madison Avenue]
- ‘Lost the Plot’ – [Tune: Jack the Lass, O’Hooley & Tiddow]
- ‘You’ve Got A Friend In Me’ – [Tune: You Got A Friend in Me , Randy Newman]
- ‘I’m Just Picky’ – [Tune: I Feel Pretty from West Side Story]
- ‘Titania’ – [Tune: Titanium, Sia & D Guetta]
- ‘I’m a Believer’ – [Monkeys version used unchanged]
- ‘Lezzergirls Song’ – [Tune: Wellerman Song, trad.]
- ‘There’s Not a Better Gift Than Love’ – [Tune: That Man, Caro Emerald. mashed with Theme to Jeeves & Wooster]
Performances took place in Brighton at Ironworks Studios and at Wagner Hall, 2023.
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