Staged Reading of THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS

Our FREE STAGED READING for the 3rd Place winner of the VOX NOVA Playwright Festival was so much fun!

Our audience laughed and cheered at our staged reading of THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS by Jonathan Josephson at the Lamanda Park Branch Library in Pasadena on November 22, 2025, directed by Todd Andrew Ball.

SYNOPSIS: It's three days after the demise of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers; Verona is in mourning, Benvolio and Rosaline are heart-broken... but the two schemers have a plan. They've independently procured magical elixirs from Apothecary with hopes of bringing their beloveds back to life. But when they accidentally double-up their dosage, something goes wrong... horribly, deliciously wrong. Now it’s up to Friar Laurence, Juliet’s Nurse, Shylock of "The Merchant of Venice," and Beatrice of "Much Ado About Nothing," and a whole lot of Balthasars to right the world again.