plays with alternate endings

[Robin C. Whittaker]

There's John Krizanc's /Tamara/ where each audience member follows a 
different character through the house and experiences entirely different 
scenes in the play (including the ending).

And I saw /Sleep No More/ in New York this fall, a wild and loose 
adaptation of /MacBeth/, where you do the same thing as in /Tamar//a/ 
but you can also just wander the old hotel on your own and explore the 
densely curated and designed rooms across six floors.

And in a different sense, Caryl Churchill rewrote the ending to /Cloud 
9/ for its American premier (though it's not a choice).

Cheers,
Robin.

Dr. Robin C. Whittaker
Assistant Professor, Drama
Department of English
St. Thomas University
Fredericton, NB E3B 5G3 Canada
www.stureviews.wordpress.com
rwhit at stu.ca

On 2013-03-20 12:36 PM, Craig Walker wrote:
> The Mystery of Edwin Drood---the musical
> Night of January 16th, by Ayn Rand (jury verdict)
> and maybe Shaw's "Cymbeline Refinished" counts.
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> The first Canadian one that pops to mind for me is Rex Deverell's TYA play, *Copetown City Kite Crisis*, where the audience votes for the ending it wants.
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> Cheers,
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> Ric
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> Hello
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> Class is working with Lion in the Streets this week and some students were struck by the presence of two possible endings and asked if this was unique. I said it’s not common but is far from unique… on the spot, however, I ran out of examples after an Acadian play I know and Fo’s Death of an Anarchist… figured I’d come up with some more before going back to class tomorrow but the mind is blank…. Any titles come to mind??
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> Glen

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