Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Neta Gordon (Brock University)

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Ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1988

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

More than 30 years after its first production at Toronto’s Annex Theatre as part of Nightwood Theatre’s 1988 season, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) continues to be regularly performed worldwide. Important productions of the play include Classic Stage Company’s 1992 off-Broadway staging, with Cherry Jones in the lead role of Constance Ledbelly; Jackie Maxwell’s staging of the play, first at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto (1994) and later at The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario (1996); and the 2001 Canadian Stage production at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, which starred Ann-Marie MacDonald as Constance. The 1988 production won a …

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Citation: Gordon, Neta. "Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 December 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14669, accessed 15 April 2025.]