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Tragedians Anonymous By Rebecca Salomonsson Entering Grades 7 – 10 July 27 – 31 Mon – Thurs 9:00 – 4:00 Fri 9:00 – 5:00 (performance at 5:00 p.m.) $275/student Put Shakespeare’s tragic characters together in a self-help group, and you get a smart, laugh-out-loud, one-act comedy that’s also quite educational! Students will audition, rehearse, design costumes and set, and present a play in a week! On Friday, students will perform Tragedians Anonymous for family and friends. Tragic characters Ophelia, Romeo, Juliet, and Lady Anne seek support through a Tragedians Anonymous group led by Prospero, where the meeting’s theme is “Identify those who wrong us and those who we wrong.” The characters proceed to confront the other characters in their plays as well as their own fatal flaws, who come to life onstage (though nobody can quite identify Hamlet’s fatal flaw). When Anne’s confrontation gets her nowhere with Claudius, she seeks a revenge that threatens all the characters’ very existence! Ultimately, all the characters, including Anne, accept their tragic fates, understanding that their outrageous fortune has helped people for centuries with profound lessons by which to live their own lives.
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