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Written in Elizabethan-style language, yet taking place in the Covid/plague era, this 3 person play tells the tale of an elderly plague patient, in quarantine and unable to have visitors, who communicates with his family via his nurse who transcribes his verbal messages and delivers those messages to the elderly man's son. Because the father's words are so harsh, his nurse rewrites them to keep the...
Written in Elizabethan-style language, yet taking place in the Covid/plague era, this 3 person play tells the tale of an elderly plague patient, in quarantine and unable to have visitors, who communicates with his family via his nurse who transcribes his verbal messages and delivers those messages to the elderly man's son. Because the father's words are so harsh, his nurse rewrites them to keep the family from breaking apart. This is appropriate for a Zoom reading. (Nod to the Cyrano deBergerac story)