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Trapped amid the plague-shuttered theaters of 1606, William Shakespeare waits in quarantine with his unpaid apprentice Francis.
Talene Monahan’s “Frankie & Will” imagines The Bard enduring the isolation of the Black Plague with a young wanna-be actor. Jeff Dolecek and Dachary Vann play the duo in a virtual Vortex Theatre performance beginning on Friday, July 30.
Jeff Dolecek is Will and Dachary Vann plays Frankie in the Vortex Theatre online production of “Frankie & Will.” (Courtesy of Vortex Theatre)
“It’s very funny and it’s nice to think about a plague that produced great art,” director Leslee Richards said.
During that time period, Shakespeare wrote “King Lear,” “MacBeth” and “Hamlet.”