|
|
Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 80-85 minutes
2 females, 1 male (3-5 actors possible: exactly 2 females, 1-3 males)
$75.00 per performance; $19.95 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb.
Pauline Khenghis, a young, failed writer, spends her frustrated days taking care of an older blind man named Mister Blind Johnny Knoll in his isolated lakehouse. To her dismay, Mister Blind Johnny Knoll hires Eugenia Haggis, an "old maid," to keep house for the winter. Pauline begins writing fake love letters to Eugenia under the pen name "Mr. Alfred Sonneville," and is able to manipulate all of their communication because the wild Sanagret boys from across the lake taunt Eugenia so violently that she is unable to leave the house. As the letters grow more intimate, their epistolary courtship grows stronger until, in a final act of cruelty and compassion, Pauline sets Eugenia free.
|  |
|
|
|
$19.95 per book
NOTE: This book contains 7 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
This anthology includes seven plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, the Obie Award-winning downtown New York City theater company that burst onto the new play scene in 1996. Edgy and thought-provoking, each play is funny, strange, and provocative in surprising, widely varying ways -- including an apartment that both adores and despises its inhabitants in Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), a metropolitan housewife who senses that something is watching her in 16 Spells to Charm the Beast, and a group of traveling freak show performers who reveal a deep humanity underneath their crowd-drawing deformities in Freakshow, among other uniquely inventive stories. For over a decade, Clubbed Thumb has had its finger firmly planted on the pulse of new work, and these plays prove it.
To purchase this book of 7 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
The Typographer's Dream by Adam Bock
Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) by Sheila Callaghan
Demon Baby by Erin Courtney
16 Spells to Charm the Beast by Lisa D'Amour
Inky by Rinne Groff
Dearest Eugenia Haggis by Ann Marie Healy
Freakshow by Carson Kreitzer
|  |
|
 |
| "This anthology represents the jazziest, most edgy writers in contemporary American drama today. And Clubbed Thumb has more nerve, more guts, more class per square inch than any not-for-profit small theatre in New York. Reading these writers makes me want to go back to my own computer and try harder, dare more, and storm the barricades for funding for this rising generation." |
| --Paula Vogel, Pulitzer-winning author of How I Learned to Drive |
|
|
|
|
$12.99 per book
Hot Blooded is a collection of 76 monologues, fresh out of the fire: A young couple sleeps through the millennium. A lonely man recounts his first lap dance. A down-and-out clown spills his guts to the kids. This book contains material for men and women of all ages, with quirky and moving characters who endure messy breakups, remember dead pets, drive the big rigs, and more.
|  |
|
|
| "There may be hope for the theatre yet. Just when it seems that no one under thirty can be trusted to cherish drama, cultivate the spoken word, or see any picture bigger than the screen of a video game, along come the writers of Youngblood." |
| --Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York Times |
|
|
|
|
