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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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The play is set in Omaha in 1980. Ric, in his late twenties, delivers pizza, writes mangled poetry, drinks too much and loves his wife. His obsessive jealousy drives Beth to temporary refuge in her mother's home, where he follows for a clumsy confrontation. Beth's last desperate effort to touch Ric provokes him to awkward, befuddled violence. Her mother finds her dead. But the play's focus is on the mother, Rosie, a bookkeeper in her fifties. Once the victim of an alcoholic, abusive marriage, she now carries on a liaison with Les, an affable used car dealer who had helped her through hard times, joked her out of depressions, but who won't divorce his wife. She clings to religion, then numerology, groping for something to believe in. She finds it in Beth's death, coming by degrees to an overwhelming faith in Ric's innocence. Fabricating her own reality, she ejects Les, gets herself fired, hires a lawyer for Ric and lies at the trial, slandering her daughter to obtain his acquittal. Not even his blunt statement

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
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It all starts when a mutual friend brings Bette Davis to Elizabeth Fuller's house for dinner. Davis calls the next day to thank Elizabeth for the lovely dinner (although the chicken was a bit raw), and to ask if she could possibly impose and stay with her for a couple of days (no more than three) while a hotel strike runs its course in New York. Fuller, a life-long fan, can hardly refuse. But trouble soon begins as Davis arrives with a station wagon full of belongings and, moves right in. Davis quickly dominates the lives of Elizabeth, her husband, John, and their young son, Christopher, who begins imitating Davis' tones and, worse, her language; as does Elizabeth, who desperately wants to form a real friendship with her idol. Elizabeth tells Davis stories of how she and her grandmother used to go to Davis' double features and write her fan letters. Oblivious to the Fuller family, Davis decides what they will have for dinner, when they will go to the beach and speaks her mind on everything from child-rearing and spiritualism to Paul Newman and, of course, Joan Crawford. As the days progress it becomes clear that Davis thrives on conflict and high tension, and that she is only truly happy when she is stirring things up. The month vacillates between highswatching JEZEBEL on the late movie togetherand lowswhen John threatens to move out if Davis doesn't leave. Then, on the thirty-second day of her stay, the hotel strike ends, and Davis departs as quickly as she arrived. But she leaves behind a gracious thank you letter and, as Bette Davis herself might have said, one hell of a good story. NOTE: Both the one and two-person version are included in a single volume.

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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A divorced mother is forced to confront her troubled past when she tries to prosecute the two boys who beat and raped her teenage daughter in this portrait of the violence that permeates modern society

Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh: Fringe Festival, Scotland, EUR >>>

07 Aug 2010

Clax Youth Theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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written by Elizabeth Fuller and Tom Murray

A drama set and performed in a real working café. This is an invite for you to eavesdrop - youre allowed! Were a theatre company for the community with young actors drawn from all over Clackmannanshire. -- Stories reflecting young people's lives as experienced today. Both serious and humerous, of friendships won and lost.