A new collection of shorts from Don Nigro, including: GORGONS (2f )
Ruth and her rival Mildred are aging movie stars in the 1960s. They
have in their time been goddesses of the screen, but now both are
on the skids and desperate for work. Mildred is doing obscure
theatre under spartan conditions when Ruth comes to her with a film
script. It's a horror movie called Gorgons, about two insane and
homicidal sisters. Both long to be famous again, so they agree to
do the movie, with comical results. This ice-pick-sharp,
dark-as-a-tomb riotous struggle between two titans of the screen is
a playground for two mature actresses who can play every note on
the emotional keyboard and really go all out. SYCORAX (1f) Sycorax,
the witch mother of Caliban on Prospero's Island, tries to explain
the world to him and help him defend himself against Prospero and
Miranda before she is herself consumed by her demonic God and lover
Setebos. A powerful acting piece for a mature actress. THE GHOST
FRAGMENTS (1f) Naomi, a young woman who finds herself convinced
that the old house she lives in is haunted, tries to solve the
mystery of the house and of her own dark past. THE LAST OF THE
DUTCH HOTEL (1m,1f) Lady de Grey, patroness of the Royal Italian
Opera, and Harry Cust, a newspaper editor who may be her lover,
linger at the shore, full of suppressed regrets and dread, endure
the ministrations of a sinister waiter and observe some
unspeakable, ambiguous and possibly horrifying events transpiring
near the edge of the sea. PANTHER (1m) It's 1988, and John Rose,
who has willed himself to live to be a hundred years old because he
promised his beloved sister Jessie he would do so, sits on a fallen
tree in the woods by the old Pendragon house where he was born and
waits for the panther his sister always warned him about to come
and get him. MULBERRY STREET (1m) Ben, a man of 52, remembers his
Italian immigrant grandfather's terrifying and haunting encounters
one night outside his village in Italy and again, years later, in a
dark stairway on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, New York, in the
year 1903.
General
Imprint: |
Samuel French
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2009 |
First published: |
October 2009 |
Authors: |
Don Nigro
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Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
144 |
Edition: |
Samuel French a ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-573-69639-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: texts >
Drama texts, plays >
General
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LSN: |
0-573-69639-X |
Barcode: |
9780573696398 |
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