Theatre Scripts
By Amelia Marriette
After Shakespeare’s death, two of his principal actors publish all his scripts, and the First Folio is born. A full-length comedy-drama with various settings.
Cast: Minimum of 4F, 5M, 4 Either. Estimated run time: 1 hour 22 minutes.
The play received its first performance in 2001 to sell-out audiences at The Other Place Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Fringe Festival.
Malvern Theatre Player's Production in 2010, which also toured to Devon was nominated for an award for Best Drama by the National Operatic and Dramatic Society
Want to know more about the First Folio? Listen to Neil Macgregor's outstanding programme for Radio 4 about the Folio - the Shakespeare Goes Global
If that grabs your interest why not consider staging Nay, Remember Me!? It's a great story - eighteen of Shakespeare's plays would have been lost if Heminges and Condell had not taken a risk and decided to become publishers. The play tells the story behind this brave decision.