The Appeal
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and Dorothy Wordsworth get drunk, hang out, and commiserate in England and the Swiss Alps. An irreverent, historically inaccurate look at the English Romantic poets.
Cast Requirements
3 men
1 woman
Publisher
Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays (Theatre Communications Group, 2008); Three Plays by Young Jean Lee (Samuel French, 2006); New Downtown Now (eds. Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee, University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
Press
“The Appeal is the happiest literary desecration since Amy Freed’s The Beard of Avon, in which Shakespeare declared, ‘I have great thought-like things within my head.’”
—New York Sun
Production and Development History
Workshop and production: Soho Rep (2004). Directed by Katherine Owens at Undermain Theatre (2007).