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Mermaid Players Present Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
February 2003

The Mermaid Players presented the dazzling comedy "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)" in the HUB's Mathers Theatre. Ann-Marie MacDonald's play tells the story of Assistant Professor Constance Ledbelly, who through a shocking and "impossible event," is transported to the worlds of Shakespeare's Desdemona and Juliet. Once there she meets, in the flesh, the very characters she is trying to write about in her "real" life.

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Photos by A. Pierce Bounds, Dickinson College

Above: Desdemona (Eliza Sprague) contemplates vengeful murder while Juliet (Whitney Amato) and Constance Ledbelly hang on for dear life.

Right: Desdemona makes an entrance fitting for a queen as Constance looks on in awe.

Above: the Chorus Leader (Libby Anthony) makes an unusual entrance.

Left: Constance Ledbelly (Katie Chick) works on her dissertation trying to make sense of Shakespeare's tragic heroines.

Above: Tybalt (David Catanese), Mercutio (Eric Fehn), and Romeo (Andy Kirtland) mistake Constance for a meddling boy.