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J P MILLER |
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Plays by J P Miller |
Days Of Wine And Roses | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24201 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 10-15 men, 5-10 women and 1 girl: 16 total | |||||
Notes: | Famed as perhaps the most renowned product of television's "golden era," and then a major motion picture starring Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon, this powerful, deeply moving drama is now available in a skillful and imaginative stage version prepared by the original author | |||||
Synopsis: | In the fast-moving milieu of Madison Avenue, social drinking is almost an occupational necessity, and one that fast-rising young Joe Clay adopts with too ready ease. Unfortunately the girl he meets and marries shares his proclivity, and while they continue to tell themselves that they drink because they choose to, it is soon apparent that their habit has become a serious problem. But their failure to acknowledge this plunges them headlong into the shattering events of the play-a career in shambles, a marriage destroyed, the esteem of friends and family lost, and a child who has become the innocent victim of their obsession. In the poignant ending of the play a spectre of hope arises but, more important, so does a galvanizing awareness of the depth of their torment, and of the lesson which their compulsive self-destruction must have for others. | |||||
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Dorchester, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76132 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Turns the whole concept of defeat at the hands of the Germans during the second World War into an engagingly witty, upper-class farce, played out in the Royal suite at the Dorchester Hotel. | |||||
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People Next Door, The | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24202 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Stage adapatation by F. Andrew Leslie. | |||||
Synopsis: | As The New York Times comments: "Mr. Miller's drama involves two middle-class families that outwardly symbolize the tranquillity of stable suburbia. But behind the green shutters and the contentment of sustained affluence lies the latent turmoil all too frequently documented in police records, the tragedy of households divided against themselves with children and parents going separate routes to common disaster. In one of Mr. Miller's families-the Masons-a sixteen-year-old girl takes LSD and worse. In the second family-the Hoffmans-the son turns out to be the wise-guy pusher coining a fortune in debasing his peers. The girl's destruction is remorselessly unfolded-the wild fantasies of trips on drugs, the filth and sordidness of an East Village pad, the unsuccessful attempts at group therapy, the pure horror of the understaffed ward for the disturbed and finally the distinct possibility that the child may face a controlled environment for the rest of her life." In a final scene of explosive fury her father lashes out against the forces that have destroyed his daughter, but it is too late-and his own share of the guilt too great. There is only the hope that others will understand-and learn from-his agony. | |||||
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