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ROMEO & HER SISTER by Jillian Blevins

ROMEO & HER SISTER by Jillian Blevins

$10.95 USD
$10.95 USD
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A full-length play by Jillian Blevins.

In 1845, Charlotte Cushman is the most famous American actress in the world, well-known for playing men's roles in the plays of Shakespeare. Despite her international fame, she harbors a secret, hidden in plain sight: she loves women. Celebrated in her own country, she has brought her sister Susan to London to play Juliet to her Romeo. Old resentments between the sisters surface as Charlotte struggles to balance her exploding career, her tumultuous relationship with writer Matilda Hays, and her affair with another young woman, all while keeping her personal life hidden from her fans, her sister, and her bitter rival, Edwin Forrest.

  • Cast Size: 2M, 5W
  • Genre: Drama
  • Approx runtime: 120+ minutes
  • $100 per performance

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About the Writer

Jillian Blevins (she/her) is a New England-based playwright whose work engages with literature, myth, and history, exploring how the stories we think we know resonate in our present. Select plays include MERE WATERS(Winner ‘Best Script’ SheNYC Festival 2024, Finalist Seattle Public Theatre Distillery New Works Festival 2024, Honorable Mention American Playwriting Foundation Relentless Award 2024, Semi-finalist O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2024), ROMEO & HER SISTER (Semi-finalist SheNYC Festival 2022), THE POLYCULE: A COMEDY OF MANNERS (Finalist Boston New Works Festival 2024, Semifinalist The Road Summer Playwrights Festival 2024, Frank Moffett Mosier Longlist Prize for Works in Heightened Language from Synecdoche Works 2023), SPACE LASER, IN SPACE!(Semi-finalist Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway New Play Festival 2023, Jewish Plays Project Festival of New Jewish Plays 2024), THE BED TRICK (Valdez Theatre Conference 2023), IZZY AT ZOOM THERAPY(Third Coast Magazine 2025), and PILLORIED (Winner, Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway New Play Festival 2024, Concord Theatricals 2025).