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“…and I shall see
Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
I’ th’ posture of a whore.”
- Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene II
A world premiere play about the forgotten adolescent boys who originally played Shakespeare’s leading ladies. At the Globe Theater in the summer of 1606, six boy players warm up, run lines, gossip, and fall in and out of love all in between rehearsals for the premieres of Antony and Cleopatra and Twelfth Night. As the plague and rising religious conservatism threaten their way of life, they are all forced to reconsider their futures on the stage. A play about growing up, gender, and a chapter of theater history we seek to forget.
PRAISE FOR “BOY MY GREATNESS”
“Boy My Greatness is a masterpiece of intricately woven stories and ruminations on gender, packaged in the likes of six powerful, sympathetic characters in whose world I could happily have spent several more hours. I can’t recommend enough catching this show before the end of its short run.” – PlaysToSee.com
“Sweeping audiences through an engrossing and affecting fusion of tragedy and comedy that never flags throughout its Shakespearean runtime… Boy My Greatness is filled with the well-tuned voices of beauty and sadness, regret and love…”
– ThinkingTheaterNYC.com
“Pageantry, entrancing stage pictures, furious fight scenes and enchanting dance sequences, all on a bare stage festooned with a few hanging rectangular scenic panels, are gloriously on display in playwright Zoe Senese-Grossberg’s absorbing self-directed highly theatrical fantasia…” – Theaterscene.org