Synopsis
Stage Blood
$10.99
Published by Samuel French Inc
5 Male 2 Female
A family acting company continuously tours Hamlet in the U.S. Carleton Stone, Sr., once a great Hamlet, is now dissolute and playing the ghost
He tries to make his reluctant son the Hamlet he once was. Here is a Hamlet within a Hamlet within a Hamlet and a murder mystery for people with stage blood in their veins
"Hamlet with a happy ending [in].... A crisply wrapped comic package" ~ N.Y. Times
"Tight, consistent, madcap literary and terribly funny, ... the very essence of clownmanship" ~ N.Y. Post
"Abounds with clever twists of plot.... It's a play within a play that mixes theatrical performance with life" ~ Village Voice
"Hamlet and Freud on wry" ~ WWD