Nay, Remember Me! is a comedy about the publishing of the First Folio of 1623.

"Nay, Remember Me!" is perfect for amateur and professional groups, schools and colleges. Shakespeare appears as a ghost, there is cross-dressing, one of Will's plays is destroyed during the printing process, there is a death, babies are born, someone goes blind, and wives get upset! The play also pops over the Atlantic to meet Folger, the oil baron who spent a fortune on collecting First Folios and spent millions of dollars setting up the Folger Library. The action occasionally takes a peep at modern-day Stratford-upon-Avon to marvel at Shakespeare's legacy, just to keep the audience on their toes! Knowledge of Shakespeare's plays is not a prerequisite to produce the play.  
 

Cast: Minimum of 4F, 5M, 4 (doubling possible).

Estimated run time: 1 hour 22 minutes. 

Lazy Bee Scripts is the publisher.

 

Performance History

The play received its first performance in 2001 to sell-out audiences at The Other Place Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Fringe Festival.

 

Malvern Theatre Player's Production in 2010, which also toured to Devon was nominated for an award for Best Drama by the National Operatic and Dramatic Society.

 

In November 2023, The Coach House Theatre in Malvern held a First Folio 400 Anniversary and Nay, Remember Me! was the centrepiece of a week of lectures and a talk by the leading Shakespeare Scholar Professor Judith Buchanan, Master of St Peter's College, Cambridge. 

 

In June 2025, Nay, Remember Me! will be performed at the Studio Theatre in Harrogate by the Woodlands Drama Group.