The Raven & The Nightingale (Excerpt)

$3.00

10-12 pages that establish character, style, and setting. Includes character list.

✦ .  ⁺   . ✦ .  ⁺   . ✦

The Raven & the Nightingale 

(5M, 5W)

Greek Tragedy

This play in verse is about the doomed prophetess of Troy, Cassandra, whose gift from Apollo was the ability to see the future and whose punishment from him was the curse that no one would believe her. Assailed by the destructive power of her visions while trying to navigate their meaning in order to save her family and her home, Cassandra is haunted and guided by the ghost of her twin brother as she faces not only her terrible fears and possible madness but her last enemy, Helen of Sparta.

  • 100 minutes

  • Contains iambic verse, Greek Choral work, movement, stage combat

  • Flexible Staging

  • PG audiences

10-12 pages that establish character, style, and setting. Includes character list.

✦ .  ⁺   . ✦ .  ⁺   . ✦

The Raven & the Nightingale 

(5M, 5W)

Greek Tragedy

This play in verse is about the doomed prophetess of Troy, Cassandra, whose gift from Apollo was the ability to see the future and whose punishment from him was the curse that no one would believe her. Assailed by the destructive power of her visions while trying to navigate their meaning in order to save her family and her home, Cassandra is haunted and guided by the ghost of her twin brother as she faces not only her terrible fears and possible madness but her last enemy, Helen of Sparta.

  • 100 minutes

  • Contains iambic verse, Greek Choral work, movement, stage combat

  • Flexible Staging

  • PG audiences