<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">"DOUBLE HEART" BY DAVID HANSEN NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH YOUTHPLAYS</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">"Double Heart (The Courtship of Beatrice and Benedick)" by David Hansen, a one-act romantic-comedy prequel to Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' has been published by YouthPLAYS, </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">a publisher of award-winning professional dramatists and talented new discoveries.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Originally produced for Great Lakes Theater's 2013 educational outreach tour, "Double Heart" imagines
two of William Shakespeare’s most beloved characters, the quick-witted
lovers Beatrice and Benedick, as they may have first met as impetuous,
young teenagers. "Double Heart" was also produced at the New York International Fringe Festival.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">“Beautiful turns of language and a touch of weirdness.” <em>-Time Out New York</em></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><em><br></em></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><i>"</i>You don’t have to know a thing about 'Much Ado' to get a major buzz from 'Double Heart'." - Rave and Pan</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">YouthPLAYS licenses one-act and full-length plays and
musicals, including works both for teen and pre-teen performers, as
well as adult actors performing for young audiences. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">David Hansen is Education Outreach Associate for Great Lakes Theater, a member of the Cleveland Play House Playwrights' Unit and the Dramatists Guild of America.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">More information - <a href="http://youthplays.com/play_details.php?play_id=348">http://youthplays.com/play_details.php?play_id=348</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "># # #</span></div></body></html>