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BRITTA E-M SANDQVIST |
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Nationality: Finnish Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
Other plays:
1.Plastic Fantastic (monologue - Danish)
2.Verden er så stor (one act play, Danish, awarded in a drama competition at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen).
3. Blott en dag (play - Swedish)
4. Robert och Judit (play/modern Romeo and Juliet drama - Swedish.)
5. Hjartats morgon (play about the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius - Swedish)
Plays by Britta E-M Sandqvist
Goodbye Stanley | ||
| 1st Produced: | Strawberry One-Act theatre festival , New York City | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #48248 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | inspired by Tennessee Williams "A Streetcar named Desire" | |||||
Synopsis: | Two sisters - Stella and Bianca - meet in Cafe du Monde in New Orleans early in the morning in June 2005. The sisters have not seen each other in five years. Bianca, the older sister, has left her home town, husband and son and moved to New York, Stella is living in New Orleans, married to a wealthy lawyer. Bianca has come to town to celebrate her son's eighteens birthdayparty and the meeting in the cafe is set up against her will by her younger sister who desperately needs to talk to her before the party. Over coffee and beignets, served by the very feminine waiter Stanley, the small talk between the sisters turns into a minimalistic drama when it becomes evident that Stella has been abused by her husband for five years - from the day Bianca left New Orleans. Goodbye Stanley is a play about domestic violence. The abused is a beautiful trophy wife of a wealthy man. The open question in the play is: Who is the victim in this story? The answer gives the plot a very unexpected twist. On request the playwright has been asked to write a second act to Goodbye Stanley. In this act the spouses of the two sisters meet in a kitchen and the story will be told from a male point of view. | |||||
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