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A virtual reading of "Wil," a new feature project written by Dan Rosen, and benefiting The Actors Fund and The AFC (The Actors Fund of Canada), will be presented March 12-17, 2021.

In 1590, 26-year-old Wil Shakespeare is a promising, but floundering playwright with a wife, three children, a ballooning mortgage and a brand new play that just closed on its first night at the Stratford Upon Avon Supper Theater.  Things are looking bleak for the young playwright when his trusted agent, Bernie Shylock, lands Wil his first professional gig - running the summer stock theatre at Elsinore Castle in Denmark.  Upon arrival in Denmark, with his new play “Romeo & Juliet” in hand, Wil finds a group of less-than-desirable thespians assembled for him (a rogue’s gallery of local thieves, hookers, a flatulent Prince Hamlet and a diva chimpanzee), leading Wil to the conclusion that something is indeed rotten in Denmark.  With murders, palace coups and fending off the affections from a bewitching Princess Ophelia, Wil realizes that putting on a respectable performance of ROMEO & JULIET might be the least of his worries.

March 12, 2021 - March 17, 2021
12:00 PM
Save to Calendar 2021-03-12 12:00:00 2021-03-17 12:00:00 America/New_York Wil A virtual reading of "Wil," a new feature project written by Dan Rosen, and benefiting The Actors Fund and The AFC (The Actors Fund of Canada), will be presented March 12-17, 2021. In 1590, 26-year-old Wil Shakespeare is a promising, but floundering playwright with a wife, three children, a ballooning mortgage and a brand new play that just closed on its first night at the Stratford Upon Avon Supper Theater.  Things are looking bleak for the young playwright when his trusted agent, Bernie Shylock, lands Wil his first professional gig - running the summer stock theatre at Elsinore Castle in Denmark.  Upon arrival in Denmark, with his new play “Romeo & Juliet” in hand, Wil finds a group of less-than-desirable thespians assembled for him (a rogue’s gallery of local thieves, hookers, a flatulent Prince Hamlet and a diva chimpanzee), leading Wil to the conclusion that something is indeed rotten in Denmark.  With murders, palace coups and fending off the affections from a bewitching Princess Ophelia, Wil realizes that putting on a respectable performance of ROMEO & JULIET might be the least of his worries. New York
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