We Need Better Friends

Two Person Show · james ferrero & nicole knudsen · Ages 13+ · 90 mins · United States of America

Content Warning world premiere

Horatio and Benvolio are both going through a lot right now. Like, a lot. Thank God they have each other.

In an unassuming apartment, Hamlet‘s Horatio and Romeo & Juliet’s Benvolio meet up to chill, eat pizza, and vent about their friends. But when annoying relationship drama becomes a matter of life and death, these two will have to lean on each other more than they ever have before.

An examination of two survivors from plays that end mostly in death, We Need Better Friends navigates the ups, the downs, the laughs, and the tears that come with just trying to get through another day.

From the team that brought you the Shakespearean slasher Titus Kills (Fall 2023) and Shakes on the Rocks (a 2018 Hollywood Fringe debut).

Content warnings include profanity, alcohol consumption, grief, and discussion of suicide.

Show art by Mia Passarella.

Production Team


nicole knudsen 

co-writer / actor / producer

james ferrero *

co-writer / actor / producer

cameron rose *

co-director

* Fringe Veteran