Full
Length Plays
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Pride
and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
CAST: 27
RUNNING TIME: 2 Hours
Three
"set areas" for quick changes using small set pieces and fabric (tapestries,
pillow, pictures).
Synopsis: The timeless tale of pride, prejudice
and love that still rings true today. Adapted for small theatres
and schools.
The Three Sisters from Queens
For five actresses
between the ages of 30 and 70+.
CAST: 5 female;
RUNNING
TIME: 90 minutes
Single unit set
SYNOPSIS: During an evening
of saying good-bye to Tess's recently deceased husband, three elderly
sisters find themselves sorting out the scattered threads of their
relationship to one another. The Italian saying that "blood
is thicker than water" never rang with such resonance. Even
if the three sisters are harboring resentments from sixty years ago.
The
play was given a staged reading at the Venus Theatre Play Shack in
Maryland on November 29, 2008. Below is feedback from the reading.
"What
a LOVELY time we had yesterday. The audience ADORED the play.
The feedback was overwhelming around how universally it conveyed.
One person suggested choosing a scene and playing it over and over
with different ethnic groups. They felt the specifics of your
world really read on a universal level.
You've created such a
specific world, it's simply delightful. This may be a strange
thing for me to say, but your punctuation is stellar. I get
exactly where the characters are (.!?). I know that should be
a given, but when my actors want to veer off I can easily tell them
to pay attention to the punctuation. These Queens personalities
are so understated and then so explosive that it would be easy to
get lost in the mud if your punctuation didn't tell us EVERYTHING.
The primal act of sucking bones at the end is just...profoundly powerful.
It's that James Earl Jones hot dog moment. So much more.
Domestic women getting primal. I SO LOVE that it's not about
the brown cheese on the lasagna but THE CHEESE IS BROWN! It's
about what is not said and these explosions are just brilliant.
Janey had an insight at table work. She said this would be a
DELIGHTFUL radio script. The sounds could evoke the tastes and
smells. I agree. It would delight as a podcast or vocal
piece. It's just wonderful."
