Stages
By Jerome McDonough.
Product Code: SZ7000
One-act Play
Drama | Farce
Cast size: 10+ either gender.
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Rights and availability
This title can be licensed and sold throughout the World.
* Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. The actual royalty rate will be determined upon completion of a royalty application.
Synopsis
Jerome McDonough's ability to condense mankind into one tiny package is revealed again in this play. This work depicts the entire history of the theatre in 35 minutes. It begins with Greek ritual and ends with the current post-modern ritual. A play for players, Stagesreveals the emotions of the playwright, director, stage manager and performers. Humor, frustration, dreams and despair—the stuff of life itself—is the stuff of this riveting play.Stages is a montage of theatre as life (or, perhaps, life as theatre) as only Jerome McDonough can do it. This riveting play, a multi-faceted examination of theatre and, by extension, of life, sweeps us through the frustrations of play creation and production. We see the players search for themselves behind their own masks and the inevitability of the closing performance—or is it just part of an insidious cycle? As the playwright claws for his own truth, the performers find scene-by-scene challenges spanning the spectrum of theatre history, from ancient ritual and the Greeks through Shakespeare, the Comedy of Manners, the melodrama, the early realists, the naturalists and the absurdists right up to the brutal, neo-ritual confrontation of the current Avant-Garde.
Notes
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show One-act Play
- Product Code SZ7000
- Minimum Cast Size 10
- Pages of Dialogue 24
- Min. Royalty Rate $40.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 35 min
Categories
- Target Audience Middle School | High School | College and Adult
- Performing Group Middle School | High School | College Theatre
- Genre Drama | Farce
- ISBN(13) 9780886801830
Also By These Authors
