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    Julio & Romiette
    Julio & Romiette
    Julio & Romiette
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    Julio & Romiette

    By Anthony E Thorogood

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    'This is a very funny play. I find Thorogood the king of comic banter.'

    'Kate is a modern day heroine of a modern day Midsummer Madness.'

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnthony E Thorogood
    Release dateApr 23, 2017
    ISBN9781370008018
    Julio & Romiette
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    Anthony E Thorogood

    I was born in London England in 1953, which makes me a baby boomer I think. Dad ran a market stall in Woolwich’s Beresford Square selling anything and everything. A natural Cockney salesman with all the patter that goes with it but when he was told to give it up or die from the cold, we packed up shop and migrated to Australia.In my youth I always enjoyed my old Dad’s tales of his adventures in the navy in WWII and of his childhood hop picking in Kent, I got my love of storytelling from my Dad. I wrote a book on cider in 2008 after being awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel around the world and drink and research cider, the cider book sold out. I followed the success of my cider book by writing a series of madcap comic extravaganzas: Bigfoot Littlefoot & West. I followed the Bigfoot books with my Jack Hamma action adventure series starting with Shakespeare on the Roof. Then in 2015 I wrote three romantic travel adventures starting with Sex Sardines and Sauerkraut.This is the bit where I state that I am happily living the good life on our 5 acre property, on the beautiful island of Tasmania, spending my time walking, cycling, planting trees, growing vegetables and writing the odd book, very odd some people say.

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      Book preview

      Julio & Romiette - Anthony E Thorogood

      Julio & Romiette

      or

      Just a Little Bit of Fun

      A Romantic Comedy

      by Anthony E Thorogood

      with a little bit of help from William Shakespeare

      ***

      Copyright Anthony E Thorogood 2016

      Published at Smashwords

      ***

      Thank you for downloading my ebook. Please note that this book took a lot of time and trouble to create and is subject to copyright restrictions and must not be redistributed.

      ***

      Julio & Romiette

      Contents

      Introduction

      Cast

      Act One: The Lounge Suite

      Scene One

      Scene Two

      Scene Three

      Scene Four

      Scene Five

      Scene Six

      Scene Seven

      Act Two: Break A Leg

      Scene One

      Scene Two

      Scene Three

      Scene Four

      Scene Five

      Scene Six

      Scene Seven

      Scene Eight

      Anthony E Thorogood

      Who the Hell am I

      What the Hell do I Write

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      Introduction

      A Midsummer Night's Dream Eats Harold Pinter

      In 1977 I wrote a play called Home Sweet Home, it was a little bit autobiographical and anti-materialistic. It was given a play reading at the Sheridan Theatre, North Adelaide, directed by Jean Marshall, and my friend, Susan Tonkin, played Kate. The one thing that struck me at the reading was the audience, there were plenty of people there and they laughed and laughed and laughed. I also remember sitting down with Jim Vila, then director of drama at The University of Adelaide, and discussing the play, he said, You have the characters now write the play! Years later I was in England, on a Churchill Fellowship, and I saw the Leominster Morris Men performing at the Apple Days at Much Marcle and a really gutsy passionate performance they did give. I was inspired by their energy and I wanted to start writing again. In 2010 I was rereading Home Sweet Home, with the idea of shredding it, when two things struck me, it was funny and there was a love story in there, so I decided it was worth re-writing rather than shredding.

      I took my old play and a very rough adaptation of a mummer's play, threw them both together and, to add flesh to the play, I reached back in time to some very early experiences of mine in the Adelaide Theatre scene. I worked with various directors and theatre companies in the late 1970's and early 1980's, Bruno Knez, at the La Mamma Theatre in Thebarton, The Adelaide Theatre Group, at the Sheridan Theatre in North Adelaide and Jim Vila, Director of The Ensemble at the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild and I used these experiences to flesh out the new play.

      The play is a reworking of the Romeo and Juliet theme from a new perspective but it's much more than that. Kate is besieged by three men but she hates all men. Her parents are passionate about things and they have an almost Pinteresque obsession with their new lounge suite. Then the players arrive and it's pure Midsummer Night's Dream madness. The new play seemed to click with my brain, driving in a car I had to write and in the middle of the night I would get up to write. It is just a little bit of fun but, like a good love story, just a little bit of fun can be hard to create.

      Cast:

      Mum: Kate's mother in her late forties.

      Dad: Kate's father in his early fifties.

      Richard: A strong, well-built deliveryman who gets hijacked.

      Kate: Somewhere between twenty and thirty years of age trying to find her own way in the world.

      Lucinda: A very keen and energetic director of amateur theatre, possibly in her thirties but any age really.

      Peregrine: A bored public servant from the suburbs, he's in his thirties, unmarried and looking for a life.

      Angelo: A backpacker from Italy pulled in off the street to act in the play however he speaks very little English.

      Leticia: An old school friend of Kate's who gets involved in theatre in order to get out and meet people.

      Set: To start with an empty stage but slowly the stage fills up with furniture. The rehearsal scenes are played to the front of the stage but can use any space available.

      The Play of Romeo & Juliet:

      All players carry stout wooden swords, fun hats and have ribbons and bells attached to their clothes and hats.

      Chorus: Lucinda

      Clown: Leticia

      Tybalt: Richard

      Romeo: Kate

      Juliet: Angelo

      Mercutio: Peregrine

      Act One

      The Lounge Suite

      Scene One:

      (Enter Kate and Leticia, they are well dressed in an I work in an office kind of style. They have been at the office all day and now are going home from work)

      Leticia: I've been meaning to say all day, those shoes!

      Kate: Good aren't they?

      Leticia: Italian?

      Kate: Yes, Italian from Milan, I'd

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