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Anthony Rose
Author(s):
Jules Feiffer
Once a renowned Broadway playwright, but now a disenchanted screenwriter, Anthony Rose has taken to traveling around the country visiting regional theatre groups who are producing his famous comedy success, The Parent Lesson. His aim is to rewrite the play on the spot to reflect his changed perspectives, and to reflect the events in his life which, he believes, have given the lie to the motives which guided him when he first wrote the play some twenty-five years earlier. Then he was a neglected, angry son; now he is a neglected husband and father who has left his wife and feels that his son cares only for his money. So far some nine theatres, upset by his disruptive tactics, have shown him the door but finally, in Kansas City, he finds a receptive director--and sets about working his "magic." Ignoring the objections of the actors, Rose adds new scenes, changes relationships between the characters and even transforms the very natures of the figures in the play. Consistently funny as they struggle to deal with these wild aberrations, the cast members begin to pull back as an underlying tone of arrogance and viciousness becomes more overt until, at last, Rose, having alienated the director, seduced the ingenue and insulted the top-billed actor, ends up taking over the lead role himself. He has, he believes, finally succeeded in finding the "truth" so long obscured in his play but, as an ironic coda (which takes place three years later) makes clear, the means have fallen far short of justifying the ends.
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| Genre(s): | Comedy
| | 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: | 5 | | Male Characters: | 4 | | Female Characters: | 1 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $50 per performance
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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