THEATER 104: The Tower and The Dead Warder in the Room

Open-Door Playhouse

It's 1536. Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, has been charged with capital crimes and is confined in a cell at the Tower of London. She finds herself, to her distaste, having a peasant as a cellmate and that's not all; To everyone's surprise, there's a dead Warder sharing the cell with them. What might the presence of this corpse portend for the cell's other two occupants? Anne has a plan.

Bernadette Armstrong directs Camille Ameen as Anne Boylen and Sue Gisser as Peasant.

Sandra Cruze is the playwright. Her previous work includes a full-length play (Little Sugar), a short film (The Physics of Killing), a web series (We're Not Dead Yet) and a musical (Moonshine Mamas).

This play is a selection in the Open-Door Playhouse Second Annual Celebration of Women in Theatre.
Recorded at Oak House Recording Studio in Pasadena, CA with Sound Engineer David Peters.

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