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Nosemaker's Apprentice: Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon

Boisterous intelligence that can't be contained....Infectious.

Time Out New York

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Medieval (6th-14th c.)
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
A father weaves a magic tale for his daughter to justify his unlicensed plastic surgery practice, tracing the origins of cosmetic surgery to craftsman in medieval Europe. 

The hero of this tale is Gavin, a young orphan rescued from a dismal existence in the Ivanhoe Workhouse for Criminally Impoverished Boys when he is apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, and who eventually becomes one of the finest surgeons in Vienna, cradle of quack medicine. Using innovative skin grafting techniques and cutting edge alchemy, Gavin and his master seek only to do the Work of the Almighty by restoring small appendages lost to rat bites, dueling, and syphilis. But when they are unable to help a powerful and mutilated knight recently returned from the crusades, they find their feet over the fire...literally. 

Hilarious, subversive, quasi-historical, and thoroughly debauched. . . a fated collaboration between two innovative (and troubling) writers.
REVIEWS:

Boisterous intelligence that can't be contained....Infectious.

Time Out New York

The play itself has the feel of a big screen production; add in Jones and Shukert's gasping-for-air hilarious script...and you've got a much better alternative to both Brooks and the Python crew's watered down inspirations forever making the Broadway rounds.

Theater Online

Nick Jones and Rachel Shukert's The Nosemaker's Apprentice is that rare spoof that is not only a delicious satire...but also a comedy packed from tail to snout with guffaw-inducing one-liners.

The Brooklyn Paper

Jones and Shukert are well on their way to becoming masters of the comedymaking profession.

That Sounds Cool
Premiere Production: The Nosemaker's Apprentice: Chronicles of A Medieval Plastic Surgeon was first produced by The Brick Theater & Terrible Baby Theatre Co. at the Brick Theatre in Brooklyn, New York.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Cross gender casting, Flexible casting, Expandable casting
  • Casting Notes: Casting in the original production was for a cast of five: four men and one female. Casting is flexible.

FATHER/NARRATOR
LITTLE GIRL
GAVIN
WULFRIC - an English Nosemaker
ULRICH - a Viennese Nosemaker
KENT - the Gatekeeper
SIR PERCIVAL - a mutilated knight
AMELIA - daughter of Wulfric
PASCAL - a French Manservant
The QUEEN of France
JEAN-MICHELLE - Director of the Free Clinic in Paris
WAITER - at Cafe Gruel
FEMALE RECEPTIONIST
HAROLD FLEETFOOT - a messenger
ARNOLD-GUNTHER
HANS - the Wife Smeller

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A father weaves a magic tale for his daughter to justify his unlicensed plastic surgery practice, tracing the origins of cosmetic surgery to craftsman in medieval Europe. The hero of this tale is Gavin, a young orphan rescued from a dismal existence in the Ivanhoe Workhouse for Criminally Impoverished Boys when he is apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, and who eventually becomes one of the finest surgeons in Vienna, cradle of quack medicine. Using innovative skin grafting techniques and cutting edge alchemy, Gavin and his master seek only to do the Work of the Almighty by restoring small appendages lost to rat bites, dueling, and syphilis. But when they are unable to help a powerful and mutilated knight recently returned from the crusades, they find their feet over the fire...literally. Hilarious, subversive, quasi-historical, and thoroughly debauched. . . a fated collaboration between two innovative (and troubling) writers.

$24.95

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