On the Boards

Celebrating over eight decades of excellence in the arts, the Silver Stage Players is dedicated to providing the finest theater, community service and educational opportunities to its members and the residents of northeastern Nevada. Its history is one of creativity and thought provoking theater. The company has challenged audiences, pushed the envelope of live theater and attracted the area's most talented actors, designers and directors since the 1930s.

SSP to Stage Ann-Marie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

📅 Date: July 11-13 and 18-20, 2024
🕙 Time: 7PM
📍 Location: Elko High School Performing Arts Center

Scholar and tweedy academic Constance Ledbelly is working on her doctoral thesis. She theorizes Othello and Romeo and Juliet were written not by Shakespeare but rather by an unknown author. What if Desdemona and Juliet were meant to live? What if they were comedies and not the commonly accepted tragedies?

Her longtime, unrequited love Professor Claude Night rebukes her dissertation, tells her he’s taken an Oxford position that she has her heart set on, and announces he's marrying her rival. All in the same meeting!

Join the Silver Stage Players for Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), by Ann-Marie MacDonald, July 11-13 and 18-20, at the Elko High School Performing Arts Center. All performances begin at 7PM for this riotous and rowdy retelling of Shakespeare's legendary texts directed by Katie Ashley and Erika Patrick. Come see Constance transform from wallflower to a new and confident self. Tickets are General Admission and cost $15. The show does contain adult language and situations.

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a novelist, playwright, actor, and broadcast host. Her work has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Chalmers, the Governor General’s, Gemini, Dora Mavor Moore, John Drainie, the Gascon-Thomas, the Canadian Authors Association, the Canadian Booksellers Association, and the Commonwealth Prize. Her writing for the stage includes the plays, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Belle Moral: A Natural History, and Hamlet-911. Ann-Marie graduated from the Acting Program of The National Theatre School of Canada in 1980. In 2019 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She is married to theatre director, Alisa Palmer, with whom she has two children.

Celebrating over eight decades of excellence in the arts, the Silver Stage Players is dedicated to providing the finest theater, community service and educational opportunities to its members and the residents of northeastern Nevada. Its history is one of creativity and thought provoking theater. The company has challenged audiences and attracted the area's most talented actors, designers and directors since the 1930s.

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bard [bärd]

Noun. A tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds. A composer, singer, or declaimer of epic or heroic verse. Traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition. Synonyms: poet · versifier · verse-maker · rhymester · rhymer · sonneteer · lyricist · lyrist · Shakespeare.

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