Worse Things Happen At Sea

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Event Worse Things Happen At Sea
Venue Globe Theatre, Palmerston North, New Zealand
First Date 2010
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional Training Schools/Colleges
World Premiere No
Description An original concept, drawing on Shakespeare and others. Quorndon, as our play begins, is a place not at all unlike Brighton, England in the mid 1920s. It is ruled by Rupert, the Duke, who took control of the Duchy when his brother Justin drowned in a shipwreck some 15 years earlier. He's a reluctant ruler and is hoping to hand over the reigns of power to the man who marries his daughter, Vesta, and so suitors have come from all over to win the lady's hand. Amongst these suiters are Bartholomew, Earl of Hastings, a wealthy fool, County Ludovico, the cousin of the ruling Countess of Florence, and Sir Hugo de Malmanche, steward of the Duke's estates who survived the shipwreck that claimed his master….
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Mary Cordery Actor Jane Hastings
Adam Dodd Actor Bartholemew, Earl of Hastings
Joy Green Actor Nanny Sage
Maddie Jardine Actor Zephyr, an invisible sprite
Matthew Poucher Actor Sir Hugo de Malmanche
Adam Dodd Director
Adam Dodd Writer
Joy Green Writer
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Further Information Website shows remainder of cast.
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 198329