Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

What would Shakespeare's famous characters really be like? What would you say if you came face to face with Othello Romeo or Juliet? This is the question for Constance Ledbelly a young English teacher, who is transported into the worlds of "Othello" and "Romeo and Juliet" with hilarious results. Can she prove that the bard really intended different endings for his most famous tragedies? Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is the story of a mousy young English teacher named Constance Ledbelly. Unlucky in love and frustrated in her work, Constance finds herself hurled into a most unlikely series of adventures, in the great comic tradition of Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of Oz. The play first appeared in Toronto in 1988 and was an instant success, spawning many subsequent productions and winning the Governor-General's Award for Drama. At the heart of the play is not Shakespeare, but someone who could easily be mistaken for a rather ordinary woman. She thinks she's a weakling, and perhaps she is in some ways. But she has strong ideas and a strong sense of right and wrong, and she will not rest until her questions are answered and her quest fulfilled. As with all good comedies, the seriousness of her purpose stays with you long after the laughter is forgotten.