Mmmbeth: Competition Length Version
by Allison Williams
A shorter version of our hilarious gender-bending take on the Scottish play. Updated version.
Average Producer Rating:
About 30 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
10
5 W | 5 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
Simple Set
28 pages
Reviews from Past Producers
In addition to traditional live stage performance rights, Mmmbeth: Competition Length Version can also be performed under the following scenarios.
Virtual Performance
A Virtual Performance is a performance on an online web conferencing platform such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, or Google Meets where performers are geographically isolated from one another and not together on a stage.
No audience is physically present with the performers. The audience is logged in to the same web conferencing platform as the performers.
Each time the play is performed for a virtual audience of any size (whether or not admission is charged) constitutes one performance.
Livestream Performance
Productions of Mmmbeth: Competition Length Version may be Livestreamed.
All Livestream Performances must be conducted through our Authorized Streaming Partner, BookTix. Please contact BookTix at info@booktix.com for more information about Livestreaming.
A Livestream Performance is a traditional performance that is livestreamed to the Internet as the actors are performing. Instead of watching the show live in the theatre, the audience watches virtually from their home or other location.
All Livestream Performances must be conducted through our Authorized Streaming Partner, BookTix. Please contact BookTix at info@booktix.com for more information about Livestreaming.
A Livestream Performance may be pre-recorded. Recordings for pre-recorded Livestreams may be made if the recording is destroyed at the conclusion of the production. Should the producing organization want to retain the recording for archival purposes, they must purchase a separate Videorecording License from Theatrefolk.
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Theatrefolk cannot be held responsible for any issues, technical, financial, legal, or otherwise, arising from the producing organization’s relationship with BookTix.
Each time the show is Livestreamed (whether performed live or pre-recorded) constitutes one performance.
One license, three ways to use it
Each royalty you purchase can be used as a Traditional Live Stage Performance, Virtual Performance, or Livestream Performance. How you choose to use your performance license is up to you! Performances need not all be of the same type so long as the total number of performances given does not exceed the total number of performances ordered.
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A competition length version of one of our most popular scripts.
A hilarious mixed-gender take on the Scottish play!
Everything goes wrong. The witches take over the storytelling, Queen Duncan would rather open a donut franchise than die, Lady M's a bloodthirsty June Cleaver, and the murderers are preoccupied with creating a commercial for their services.
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Characters
10
5 Women, 5 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
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MMMBETH
[A]
59 lines
- Easily frustrated Thane of Cawdor. One Monologue.
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LADY MMMBETH
[W]
57 lines
- A gentle housewife… at first. One Monologue.
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BANQUO
[A]
21. lines
- Mmmbeth’s best friend. Thinks something’s rotten in the State of Scotland.
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MACDUFF / SON OF MACDUFF
[A]
29, 7 lines
- Knows something’s rotten in the State of Scotland / Played by MacDuff
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QUEEN DUNCAN
[W]
28 lines
- Brilliant, misunderstood, and refuses to die.
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HAGGY / DOCTOR
[W]
42, 4 lines
- The smart witch / Played by Haggy
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NAGGY / GENTLEWOMAN
[W]
33, 1 lines
- The sly witch / Played by Naggy
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TWIT / GENTLEWOMAN
[W]
38, 1 lines
- The dumb witch / Played by Twit
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HECATE
[W]
6 lines
- Big Mama Hecate, head of the witches and a blues queen.
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MURDERER ONE / SOLDIER
[A]
9, 10 lines
- Eager to help dispose of inconvenient obstacles to the throne, like heirs and suspicious thanes / Behind the door when the brains were passed out.
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MURDERER TWO / SOLDIER
[A]
9, 8 lines
- Eager to help dispose of inconvenient obstacles to the throne, like heirs and suspicious thanes / Behind the door when the brains were passed out.
- MARATHON RUNNERS
- Played by the cast.
- Subgenres
- Farce Parody Adaptation
- Settings
- 16th Century / Elizabethan
- Dress
- Period costumes
- Audience
- Teen
- Features
- Variable Cast Size Audience participation Music Physical comedy Special effects Stage combat Variable gender breakdown
- Set
- Simple set Interior set
- Cautions
- Adult themes Onstage murder
- Themes
- Betrayal Death Relationships Morality Revenge Theatre
- Other uses
- Competition Class work Scene work
Prop List
letter, sign, big knife, sword, magic 8-Ball, dagger, sword, sledgehammer or axe, chainsaw, bloody leg, list, plate of cookies, knife-shaped cookie, frying pans, gun, wig, box of donuts, donut, potted plant
Multimedia
Related Titles
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Royalty fees apply to all performances whether or not admission is charged. Any performance in front of an audience (e.g. an invited dress rehearsal) is considered a performance for royalty purposes.
Exemption details for scenes and monologues for competition.
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About 30 minutes
Times given are approximate and do not include intermissions/scene changes/breaks
10
5 W | 5 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
Simple Set
28 pages