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The Coal Diamond
Author(s):
Shirley Lauro
The time is 1955, the place a Missouri insurance company office on the hottest day of the year. It is lunchtime, and four women employees gather for their daily session of gossip and bridge. The senior member of the group, a wisecracking supervisor who is deferred to by the others, is scornful of an absent colleague, but affable towards the new employee who has volunteered to make a fourth for their game. As the cards are dealt, and sandwiches devoured, small talk abounds--leading, inadvertently, to the unsettling revelation that the man the "new girl" is presently engaged to was once the fiancée of the spinster supervisor. Subtly the mood changes: pride of place is now suddenly challenged; the supervisor turns sharp and vindictive; the young employee is wary that she may have damaged her hopes for advancement; and the other ladies gloat over the glimpse into a past which, until now, their supervisor has kept safely hidden.
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| Genre(s): | Not Available | | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 4 | | Male Characters: | 0 | | Female Characters: | 4 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $25 per performance
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Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
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