All Plays In This Collection Are Royalty Free
Love and Other Disasters is a wildly entertaining evening of short comedy plays that take a hilariously honest look at love, romance, and everything in between. From passionate entanglements to unexpected reunions, these stories explore the highs and lows of relationships with wit, charm, and a touch of absurdity.
A full evening of short comedies about the theater and the people who populate it from an actress jealous of her non existent understudy, to a besieged director, an incompetent muse, singing stagehands, a couple with conflicting memories about how they met auditioning for a play, two characters trying to escape from a play and the most important element in any theatre... the audience.
Harboiled private eye Dick Shamus, an operative of the F.B.I. (the Fictional Bureau Of Investigation) takes on his toughest case when he travels back to the sixteenth century royal court of Denmark to help a reluctant Prince Hamlet avenge the murder of his father where he faces off against a nest of vipers including the ambitious new king, his lusty wife,(who also happens to be Hamlet's mother), a sexy femme fatale by the name of Ophelia who wants everything including our intrepid detective, all the while being prodded by an impatient, revenge seeking ghost..
Iconic Shakespearean characters including Romeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Lady MacBeth, Desdemona, Kate the Shrew and, even, the head of Anne Boleyn in unexpected comedic situations that would surprise the Bard himself.