RR_S12E02 - QvK - Philadelphia Artists Collective

Written By: Eli Lynn (they/them) | Directed By: Damon Bonetti

Royalty clashes with royalty in a duel of dominance as a group of actors take on the Great Speeches from the Great Plays. Epic rhetoric, power plays and violence in the streets as our heroes battle it out upon a bocce ball court stage. The PAC returns to the Fringe with a crafty satire on how ultimate power ultimately corrupts. 

This fall, The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective (PAC) will present a free original play featuring Shakespearean speeches and swordplay as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. QvK, PAC’s 10th Fringe production, will be performed at Bardascino Park. Over the course of the 45-minute show, actors engage in a monologue battle, performing famous speeches from classical plays and competing to win the audience’s vote of supremacy. As the competition goes on, the fight becomes more heated and tactics become more desperate, with actors resorting to flattery, bribery, secret weapons, and actual weapons. The performance ultimately serves as a crafty satire about how power eventually corrupts.