The Shakespeare garden club: A fantasy

A comic short play stages a meeting of a garden club held in a cottage where well-known Shakespearean women assemble as club members and debate plans to beautify the riverbanks. Lady Macbeth presides, Portia keeps minutes, and others—Juliet, Titania, Ophelia, Desdemona, Rosalind, Cleopatra, Jessica, Katherine, Perdita and more—offer floral proposals, practical reports, and poetic suggestions drawn from their respective stories. Conversation mixes gardening advice, plant symbolism, and personal foibles as members nominate species, manage treasury concerns, and settle club protocol. The piece playfully repurposes dramatic personae to explore horticulture, memory, and social ritual through staged humor.