POSTPONED: Chaucer’s Troilus and Cressida, adapted by A. S. Kline
O blind world! O blind intention! Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Troilus and Criseyde” provided the inspiration and template for Shakespeare’s infamous “problem play” of wartime lovers Troilus and Cressida. Falconbridge Players presents a dramatic reading of Chaucer’s epic tale of Trojan romance … Continued
2019: That’s a wrap!
With Trifles and Overtones in the books, our first year of programming has come to an end. Thank you to the dozens of performers who contributed their time and talents to our seven pop-up presentations, and to those who joined … Continued
Trifles and Overtones by Susan Glaspell and Alice Gerstenberg
Two short plays from 1916 about having the awareness to see the deeper truths within. Free and open to the public. A Falconbridge Players theatrical workshop at Arts + Literature Laboratory, 2021 Winnebago St. in Madison. Tuesday December 3 at 8:00 PM.
The Upper Berth by Francis Marion Crawford
Bored with the usual after-dinner cigars and conversation? Want to spice up your usual Halloween routine? Try a transatlantic ghost hunt at sea… if you dare. Falconbridge Players presents a dramatic reading of the 1894 horror classic The Upper Berth … Continued
King John script now available!
Download the script to perform or follow along in the September 24 workshop presentation of King John by William Shakespeare.
King John by William Shakespeare
“This England never did, nor never shall,Lie at the proud foot of a conquerorBut when it first did help to wound itself.” This under-appreciated classic features a nation in turmoil, foreign political interference, and several characters who answer to the … Continued
London Assurance by Dion Boucicault
Script now available! Download below. “Love is a pleasant scape-goat for a little epidemic madness.” A comedy with deception, intrigue, and Lady Gay Spanker. A Falconbridge Players theatrical workshop at Arts + Literature Laboratory, 2021 Winnebago St. in Madison. Tuesday … Continued
Do not tremble! Women Beware Women script available now
The workshop adaptation of Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton is available now. Download and print or read along on a screen at the July 23 event at Arts + Literature Laboratory. Arrive at 6 PM to read a role … Continued
Women Beware Women preview from Radio Literature on WORT-FM
Falconbridge performed an excerpt of Act II Scene 2 of a preview of Women Beware Women on Thursday July 11. The recording from WORT, 89.9 FM wortfm.org is below. The full workshop of Women Beware Women is July 23 at … Continued
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
Script now available! “It seems that in a Middleton tragedy, the stage inevitably will be littered with dead bodies at the end. The entertainment is seeing how the massacres come to be.” – shakespeareances.com Couples that fall in and out … Continued