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Comedy |
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Full-length, 90-100 minutes
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3 females, 3 males |
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A red velvet curtain and footlights.
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When the men of a small Prohibition-era town decide to put on a play dressed in "fancy-type, women-type clothes," the whole community is affected: gender lines blur, eyebrows raise, identities explode, and life and art are forever entangled. A thoughtful and exuberant Midwestern fable about the woman in every man, the man in every woman and the power of theatre to uncover both. Accompanied by accordion.
(This play is also available in the collection Humana Festival 2006: The Complete Plays.) |
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| "The [2006 Humana] Festival's most uproarious comedy, a farce of outlandish proportions, takes on and celebrates the art of theater itself...Part Waiting for Guffman and part Dangerous Liaisons, Act a Lady's dizzying gender-bending explores the theater, the fallibility of stereotypes and the joys of accordion music with a deft wisdom..." |
| --Tony Brown, Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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Weissberger Award Finalist |
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Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Award, Second Prize |
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Kesselring Prize Nominee |
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| Matt Seidman, Paul O'Brien, and Sandra Shipley in Act a Lady, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky (2006). Photo: Harlan Taylor. |
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