Celebrated actor Charlotte Cushman wants to play Romeo, using Shakespeare’s original text. But most of the cast protest. They demand the cleaned-up Garrick version.

“Restoring Romeo” is a comic version of a slice of theatre history. All four of the characters were historical figures. The play is mainly written in rhyming couplets, like much of Shakespeare. The script won second place in the William Faulkner Literary Competition: One-Act Play, New Albany, Mississippi, 2022 and is published in “London: Smoke, Blokes and Jokes of Foggy Town”, Red Penguin, 2022. There have been Zoom readings in New York, Nashville, West Hollywood, Cocoa Beach (Florida), West Hollywood and Paris (France).