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    Her Majesty's Will: A Play Of Will & Kit
    Her Majesty's Will: A Play Of Will & Kit
    Her Majesty's Will: A Play Of Will & Kit
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    Her Majesty's Will: A Play Of Will & Kit

    By Robert Kauzlaric and David Blixt

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    "Her Majesty's Will is a heady, silly romp that works!" -Th

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    PublisherSordelet Ink
    Release dateDec 5, 2023
    ISBN9781944540319
    Her Majesty's Will: A Play Of Will & Kit
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    Robert Kauzlaric

    Robert Kauzlaric has written more than a dozen theatrical adaptations which have been performed in nearly forty states across the U.S., as well as in Ireland, England, and Canada.The New York Times called his adaptation of THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITTLE PIGS! "One of the best children's shows of the year." His version of H.G. Wells' THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU received five of Chicago's Non-Equity Jeff Awards, including New Adaptation and Best Production; his adaptation of Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE received the Non-Equity Jeff Award for New Adaptation; and his version of Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY was nominated for New Adaptation. He was commissioned by the Illinois Shakespeare Festival in 2010 to produce a new adaptation of Dumas' THE THREE MUSKETEERS, and two of his plays have been published by Playscripts, Inc.

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      Her Majesty's Will - Robert Kauzlaric

      Her Majesty’s Will

      A Play of Will & Kit

      Adapted by

      Robert Kauzlaric

      Based on the Novel by

      David Blixt

      This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, events, and organizations portrayed in this work are either products of the authors’ imagination or used fictitiously.

      Her Majesty’s Will - A Play

      Copyright © 2017 by Robert Kauzlaric

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval without permission in writing from the author.

      ISBN-13: 978-1944540319

      ISBN-10: 1944540318

      For information about production rights, e-mail:

      sordeletinkmedia@gmail.com

      Cover by David Blixt & Robert Kauzlaric

      Published by Sordelet Ink

      www.sordeletink.com

      Get a free Sordelet Ink playscript by clicking here!

      Her Majesty’s Will received its world premiere at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, IL, on June 6, 2017. It was directed by Christopher Hainsworth; costume design was by Aly Renee Amidei; fight direction was by David Blixt; lighting design was by Diane D. Fairchild; scenic design was by Eleanor Kahn; properties design was by Alec Long; original music and sound design was by Jeffrey Levin; assistant directors were Sarah Scanlon and Caitlin McManus; and the production stage manager was Kate Reed. The cast was as follows:

      Javier Ferreira - Will

      Bryan Bosque - Kit

      Heather Chrisler - Chorus, Huffing Kate, Helena of Snakenborg, Em Ball

      LaQuin Groves - Savage, Audience #2, Driver, Ruffler, Lucy Soldier 1

      Martel Manning - Phelippes, Audience #3, Innkeeper, Lyly, Dibdale, Evans, Actor Playing The Noble-Man

      Dan Cobbler - Actor Playing Revenge, Tarlton, Cripplegate Guard 2, Poor Tom, Lucy, Actor Playing Horatio

      Peter Greenberg - Actor Playing Hieronymo, Blacke Davie, Cripplegate Guard 3, Greene, Stagehand

      Don Bender - Boy, Higgins, Actor Playing The Ghost of Andrea, Walsingham, Gifford, Lucy Solider 2, Augustine

      Mike Ooi - Rookwood, Audience #1, Cripplegate Guard 1, Cutting Ball, Actor Playing Bel-Imperia

      The understudies were Justin Harner, Maggie Patchett, Cole Simon, Sean Sinitski, & Tony St. Clair

      The following credit must appear in all programs/playbills handed to audience members at performances of Her Majesty's Will:

      Her Majesty’s Will was originally produced by Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, in 2017.

      

      Cast of Characters

      PLAYWRIGHTS

      William Shakespeare — A young man, passionate and bold; later, the greatest playwright that ever lived.

      Christopher Kit Marlowe — A charming, self-obsessed rogue; later, another legendary playwright.

      John Lyly — One of the Wits; a lean and proper playwright, poet, and proponent of Euphuism.

      Robert Greene — One of the Wits; a grossly fat playwright, scholar and drunkard.

      LONDON ROGUES & RASCALS

      Dick Tarlton — The Queen’s favorite fool, stocky, with a cheerfully ruddy face.

      Cutting Ball — A shifty thief with the jaw of a mastiff and the eyes of a hawk.

      Em Ball — Cutting Ball’s crafty sister.

      Huffing Kate — A perpetually angry wench who speaks in loud, angry gusts.

      Blacke Davie — A massive man with a bristling black beard and wild eyes.

      An Innkeeper — At the Elephant & Castle.

      Poor Tom — A madman from Bethlam Royal Hospital.

      A Ruffler — Outside Gifford’s house.

      NOBLES & THEIR GUARDS

      Helena of Snakenborg — Marchioness of Northampton and Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth.

      Sir Thomas Lucy — A knight and Catholic-hunter; a pasty fellow with curly hair like a topiary.

      Cripplegate Guards 1, 2 & 3 — Soldiers at Cripplegate.

      Two Soldiers — In service to Lucy.

      Driver — Of Lady Helena’s carriage.

      IN HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE

      Sir Francis Walsingham — The Queen’s master of spies; black of hair, black of beard, and black of eye.

      Thomas Phelippes — A spy and forger in the service of Walsingham.

      Soldier — At Seething Lane.

      CATHOLIC REBELS

      John Savage — A violent Catholic thug with a carbuncle nose.

      Gilbert Gifford — A disgraced deacon.

      Robert Dibdale — A Catholic priest, originally from Warwickshire.

      Matthew Rookwood — A Catholic agent; branded with the murderer’s M on his cheek.

      Francis Higgins — A Catholic agent; wears an eyepatch.

      LANCASHIRE LOCALS

      Boy — The offstage voice of a boy in Will’s school.

      THEATRE-FOLK

      Henry Evans — The prompter at the Newington Butts Theatre; a wiry, fussy man.

      Augustine — An experienced actor at the Newington Butts.

      Stagehand — At the Newington Butts; a former sailor.

      Audience Members 1, 2 & 3 — At the Newington Butts.

      Actor Playing The Ghost of Andrea

      Actor Playing Revenge

      Actor Playing Hieronymo

      Actor Playing Bel-Imperia

      Actor Playing Horatio

      Actor Playing The Noble-Man

      THEATRICAL DEVICES

      Chorus — Prologue, Chorus, Time, and Epilogue in one.

      Other roles, as needed (Soldiers, Guards, Laborers, Layabouts, Londoners) are played by the ensemble.

      Setting

      Multiple locations in and around Lancashire and London

      July & August, 1586

      Foreward

      by Robert Kauzlaric

      In brief, David Blixt’s novel HER MAJESTY’S WILL tells a story of William Shakespeare’s Dark Years – the period of time between his early days in Stratford and his later successes in London – when the legendary writer fell out of the history books and next to nothing is known of his goings-on. David takes some historical hints that one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries – playwright Christopher Marlowe – had been involved with espionage for the English government, mixes in details of a famous plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth that occurred during the period, grabs a whole host of tidbits about historical figures from the time, mixes them together and imagines young William Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe coming of age as wannabe spies in a comedic action-adventure romp, fighting against impossible odds to save the Queen’s life. And all along the way, David has Will encountering characters and situations that will later inspire details in his plays.

      I fell in love with the characters in his novel the moment I started reading it. I adored the crazy plot and all the ridiculous shenanigans. I enjoyed engaging with all of the ideas he touches on throughout. And I knew at once that I wanted to take a stab at turning it into a piece of theater.

      As I approached the possibility of adapting it for the stage, I had one main area (aside from all the usual who-to-cut/who-to-keep/what-plot-to-trim/what-ideas-to-pursue stuff) that I knew I would have to make a significant decision on: how to give the audience access to Will’s inner journey.

      In his novel, David creates a Will that keeps a LOT of secrets. There’s all sorts of backstory about the circumstances that resulted in Will landing where he is at the start of his adventure that David doles out at neatly-spaced intervals, giving the reader just enough information to provide context for the larger story. But even though we (as readers) don’t know the whole story until the end, since the book is

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