The Coarse Acting Show 2: Further Plays for Coarse Actors - Softcover

Green, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573100055 ISBN 13: 9780573100055

Publisher: Samuel French Ltd, 1980

Synopsis

Short comedies

Characters: Various males and females, extras

In each of these masterpieces from the authors of Four Plays for Coarse Actors, sets collapse, actors fail to appear and props fall to pieces while the casts carry on, believing that the audience won't notice. Moby Dick is an ambitious attempt to reduce the epic novel to a series of quick fire scenes. The Cherry Sisters, a previously undiscovered Chekhov fragment, is a desperately sincere piece with a teary ending (spoiled by a faulty prop that necessitates a standing death). Last Call for Breakfast is an avant garde play shortened because an actor is in the wrong place during a black out. Henry the Tenth (Part Seven) is a rarely performed tragedy with battle scenes that would amaze the bard.

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0573100055
• ISBN 13: 9780573100055
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110