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So When You Get Married..
Author(s):
Ellen Byron
The place is a ladies powder room, where three members of an Italian-American family, a grandmother, her daughter, and her granddaughter, retreat to discuss family business away from the distractions of a noisy wedding reception. The grandmother, an old world matriarch, is concerned that her granddaughter is not the one getting married, as it is definitely time for her to settle down and start raising a family. The granddaughter, however, has other ideas, specifically an art career and an apartment of her own--for which she needs the money her grandmother has set aside for her as a dowry. The generations clash uproariously and with much Italian "brio" as the flinty grandmother refuses to budge an inch--no money until her granddaughter agrees to find herself a husband; the granddaughter makes it very clear that marriage is the farthest thing from her mind; and the mother, caught in the middle, tries to calm things by plying the others with staggering amounts of food and drink carted in from the groaning buffet. She even arranges a visit by the glib, unctuous MC ("he's cute, he's single, he's Italian"), but the granddaughter remains unmoved and the old lady retreats into a stern-faced, stony silence. But, happily, the emotions stirred up by their dispute are counterbalanced by the strong family ties which bind them together and which, in the end, give them the means to deal with the differences which sprung up between them.
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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: | 1 | | Female Characters: | 3 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $25 per performance when produced individually. $50 when produced in tandem with ELECTION YEAR
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Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
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