The Lives and Deaths of Laurel and Hardy
A New Play
The Lives and Deaths of Laurel and Hardy is a brand new stage play written by Donna K. Triggs and brought to you by Dreamstone Productions. This is a play about Laurel and Hardy in the style of Laurel and Hardy. It is also a play about coping with grief, and about the fight for artistic freedom.
"During his last illness, Ollie would try so hard to communicate with Stan that tears rolled down his cheeks. This play imagines the conversations they might have had."
Meticulously Researched
Written with great love, the play looks back over the lives of these two comedy legends, expressing them as they might have chosen—not always 100% reliably, but in ways that communicate their loss on a deeper level.
Whimsy and Sorrow
It acknowledges what all masters of clowning know—that tragedy and comedy are never far from one another. The script turns chaos into whimsy and sorrow into laughter, honouring their artistic struggle.
As the very last stage direction Stan Laurel ever wrote for himself and his partner says: 'All take it very big...Pandemonium reigns'.