Yorick

Abram

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet · 5 speeches across 1 scenes

A Montague servingman who appears briefly in the street brawl.

Who they are

Abram is a minor Montague servant who participates in the opening brawl with the Capulets, representing the feud's reach into the lower classes.

Playing them

This is a minor role with limited stage time.

Where they appear

Play Abram

Take the part and Yorick reads every other role aloud, following you line by line as you speak.

Shakespeare the way it was meant to be had — out loud

These plays were written to be performed, not silently read. Yorick is a rehearsal app that lets you perform them: you take a part in any of Shakespeare’s 38 plays, and Yorick reads every other role aloud, listens while you speak your lines, keeps your place, and prompts you the moment you dry.

It is built for the person who has to be off book by tech week — school and college productions, community theatre, festivals, drama students and classical auditions — and for anyone who wants to hear a scene rather than skim it. Alongside the performance you get a plain-English translation of every speech, scene context, performance notes, and the ability to ask about any line and get an answer that already knows the play, the scene and who is speaking.

The text is the public-domain Cambridge/Globe edition. Translations and notes are AI-generated rehearsal aids for actors and students, not a scholarly apparatus. Yorick runs in a browser with nothing to install, and on iPhone and Android.