​Restoring Romeo

a comedy

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.
 
CHARACTERS
    Female
CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN, American actor, 29
SALLIE MERCER, Black American, Charlotte’s dresser, 16
    Male
EDWIN FORREST, American actor, 39
BENJAMIN (BEN) WEBSTER, English theatre manager, 48                                            
 
PLACE
A dressing room in the Haymarket Theatre, London
             
TIME
December, 1845