Travesti Play Script by Nigel Holloway

Travesti Nigel Holloway The comic and tragic events in the life of infamous actress, Charlotte Charke. She was notorious for playing male travesti parts on the stage, and for cross-dressing in her private life. Suspicions of her unconventional sexual behaviour, flagrant satires on her famous father, Colley Cibber, and her defiance of social conventions in the face of her father’s embarrassment and anger, led inevitably to her fall from his favour. A gently surreal tragicomedy ‘well written, and truly theatrical in concept. I loved the puppet scenes!’ Prices Note. All prices shown are now inclusive. No additional VAT is charged on Scripts, Library Reading Service or Performing Licences. Royalty Code F Script £5.00 Library Service £1.50 Performing Licence £45.00 per performance for Hall seating up to 150 Performing Licence £50.00 per performance for Hall seating up to 400 Please note that one Performing Licence is required for each performance. Buy Online Cast Summary Travesti: 5M 6F Synopsis Although largely forgotten today, one man stood out in the theatre of the early eighteenth century: Colley Cibber. Rising from apprentice actor to become (like David Garrick some 30 years later) actor-manager in charge of Drury Lane, Cibber was actor, author, playwright and celebrity. Through his ability to flatter and ingratiate himself with the rich and powerful, Cibber eventually rose to become Poet Laureate. But his talents for hypocrisy and self-promotion were never inherited by his youngest daughter, Charlotte, who despite following in her father’s theatrical footsteps, insisted on ploughing her own furrow, and flying in the face of his conventional sensibilities. Charlotte became notorious not only for playing male travesti parts on the stage, but for carrying her cross-dressing into her private life. Suspicions about her immoral behaviour, together with her increasingly flagrant parodies of her famous father, led Cibber to disown her. Cut off from her chosen profession, and the love and support of a family, Charlotte (with her daughter Kitty) was condemned to a hand to mouth existence for the rest of her life, and eventually died in poverty. The comic and tragic events of Charlotte’s life - her defiance of convention in the face of her father’s embarrassment and anger, and her inevitable fall from his favour - are played out against a sometimes surreal and distinctly non-contemporary picture of the eighteenth century. At the heart of this well-written, amusing and highly theatrical play is the fundamental question: which path brings the greater reward? Conformity or outrage? Hypocrisy or integrity? Duty or love? Read Sample Pages Specifications Format: Paperback Pages: vi,56 Dimensions: A5 (148mm width x 210mm height) Publisher: Jasper Publishing Published: 2009 Language: English ISBN: 978 1 906997 39 7 Keywords Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, Eighteenth century, Drury Lane, Travesty, Travesti, cross dressing Links If you would like to include a link to this script, you can copy the following HTML and paste it into your own website. Link to this script in the Advanced Website: <a href=http://www.jasperpublishing.com/Products.aspx?ItemId=469>Travesti, Nigel Holloway</a> Link to this script in the Classic Website: <a href=http://www.JasperPublishing.com/StaticContent/469.htm>Travesti, Nigel Holloway</a>  Home   Advanced website with Shopping Cart

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