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Man Dangling
Author(s):
Murray Schisgal
THE STORIES: The first play, THE CONSEQUENCES OF GOOSING, is a wryly humorous study of the sad/funny problems which beset a middle-aged corporate attorney when, in a fit of euphoria, he apparently gooses a shapely young high school girl on his way home from the office. The first question is: "Did he or didn't he?" The other (but equally important) questions are: will his wife, his law partners, and society in general forgive him if he did? Needless to say, the answers to these questions provide moments of high humor, not to mention some telling insights into human nature. (1 man, 1 woman). In the second play, HOW WE REACHED AN IMPASSE ON NUCLEAR ENERGY, a nuclear energy official, Dennis, returns from a lengthy trip abroad to find that his wife, Rosalind, has grown a beard! While very much a believer in women's liberation, the startled Dennis finds his openmindedness sorely taxed this time--which leads on to some very pertinent, and funny, observations about sexism, role-playing, and the threat of nuclear annihilation. (1 man, 1 woman). The third play, 74 GEORGIA AVENUE, is a deeply affecting examination of the bizarre developments which follow when a successful (but deeply unhappy) white businessman, Marty, decides to spend a few days in his boyhood home, in what has now become a black neighborhood. He encounters Joseph, the son of the now deceased black man who was once the janitor of the once thriving synagogue which Marty attended as a child, and whose recollections of those long ago years parallel his own. And, magically, these years are relived, as Joseph "becomes" the long-dead figures who peopled Marty's boyhood and who, in memory, have drawn him to his journey into the past. (2 men).
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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: | Not Available | | Male Characters: | Not Available | | Female Characters: | Not Available | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $50 per performance when produced together; $20 each for THE CONSEQUENCES OF GOOSING and HOW WE REACHED AN IMPASSE ON NUCLEAR ENERGY; $25 for 74 GEORGIA AVENUE when produced individually
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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