This early modern play remains on the fringes of Shakespeare’s complete work–maybe he wrote it, maybe he didn’t. Regardless of its author, this story is rooted in a real 16th-century murder, and our FringeSpeare version reimagines this domestic tragedy as a darkly comic musical about a crime everyone knows is coming. Folk tunes and ballads from a chorus of country yokels frame the damning deeds of the magnetic Alice Arden and her lover, Mosby, all leading to the play’s gripping conclusion.
