Matthew Burnet
Based on the Thornton Wilder novel
Comedy/Drama
Characters: 4 male, 3 female to play over 20 characters
Simple sets
Helen Hayes Award nomination, Outstanding New Play
It is the spring of 1926. Thirty year old Theophilus North quits
his teaching post in New Jersey and embarks on a quest for fun,
adventure and his place in the world. His used car breaks down in
Newport, Rhode Island, and he is stranded in this city of renowned
wealth. Theophilus becomes involved in the lives and troubles of
Newport's residents and is changed by the lessons he learns through
them. Effective with minimal sets, properties and costumes, this
touching, funny and insightful charmer is exceptionally easy to
produce. "Hope pulses so strongly through Theophilus North....
Burnett injects his script with cosmic scope.... Imaginative,
forceful theater.... Charming and breathtaking all at once.... In
the spirit of Wilder and with a dramatic vigor all its own, the
play turns large-hearted living into art." --Variety
"Undaunted, it] evokes...tender, unforced humanity.... Rich in
dry humor, and in Wilder's...philosophy that the cosmic permeates
the quotidian.... Gently funny, spryly wise..." --Time Out New
York
"Charming... Captures Wilder's spirit of genial humor and
tempered optimism.... Ignites sparks of surprisingly deep emotion."
--New York Daily News
"Excavates the Wilder play buried in the novel.... This
Theophilus North is unmistakably a cousin of Our Town.... There are
muscles rippling under the play's rose-scented skin." --New York
Sun
"Five stars.... Purely sparkles with intelligence, wit and
humanity.... This is a play both for the head and the heart."
--TalkinBroadway.com
"Beautiful and intelligent... A mixture of Wilderesque sobriety
and esprit. The late author would undoubtedly have tipped his
boater..." --TheaterMania.com
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