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Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet

February 4, 2016 - February 6, 2016

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Johnson Theatre, Lenfest Hall

Susan Wager

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a 1988 comedic play by Ann-Marie MacDonald in which Constance Ledbelly, a young English literature professor from Queen's University, goes on a subconscious journey of self-discovery.

Constance theorizes that Shakespeare's tragedies, "Othello" and "Romeo and Juliet", were originally comedies, and believes the ideas for the plays originate from the indecipherable Gustav Manuscript. She believes this because, if a wise fool archetype were reinstated into the plays, they could not remain tragedies. However, she is too timid to show her skeptical boss, professor Claude Night, that she is right. In a moment of despair, Constance is thrown into both her subconscious mind and the two Shakespearian tragedies to discover the truth about herself, and to find the lost fool with the help of Desdemona and Juliet.

MacDonald received the Governor General's Award, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award for the play.



Come see Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Friday, February 5, 2016
Saturday, February 6, 2016
7:30 p.m. in the Johnson Theater, Lenfest Hall.
Tickets are required.
All tickets are $5

Tickets are required. All tickets are $5