Mad Forest
- Full Length Play, Drama, 1980s
- 40M or F
- ISBN: 9781854590442
"Churchill's strengths are evident: her sharp, unpredictable eye, her inventiveness, her unsentimental sympathy."
London Times
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: 1980s
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
REVIEWS:
"Churchill's strengths are evident: her sharp, unpredictable eye, her inventiveness, her unsentimental sympathy."
London Times
"Bristles with the intelligence and insight of a major writer."
Financial Times
"The work is speedy, poetic, urgent and electrifying... The trial and execution of the Ceausescus is done as a sickening revue sketch, an indicator of the double-edged, sceptical tone throughout. A triumph! The future of our theatre, if not that of Romania, is secure."
Observer
Characters
- Casting: 40M or F
- Casting Notes: 40 characters, may be played by a cast of 11.
BOGDAN - an electrician
IRINA - a tramdriver
LUCIA - a primary school teacher
FLORINA - a nurse
GABRIEL - an engineer
RODICA - Gabriel's wife
WAYNE - Lucia's bridegroom
GRANDFATHER - Bogdan's father
GRANDMOTHER - Bogdan's mother
OLD AUNT - Bogdan's aunt
Antonescu Family
MIHAI - an architect
FLAVIA - a teacher
RADU - an art student, their son
GRANDMOTHER - Flavia's grandmother
IANOS
SECURITATE MAN
DOCTOR
PRIEST
ANGEL
VAMPIRE
DOG
SOMEONE WITH SORE THROAT
PATIENT
TWO SOLDIERS
TOMA - age 8
GHOST
WAITER
PAINTER
GIRL STUDENT
2 BOY STUDENTS
TRANSLATOR
BULLDOZER DRIVER
SECURITATE OFFICER
SOLDIER
STUDENT DOCTOR
FLOWER SELLER
HOUSE PAINTER
PEOPLE IN QUEUES AND WEDDING GUESTS - played by members of the company
Available Material
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This timely drama resulted from a trip to Romania. Developed with students from London's Central School of Drama, this is an incisive portrait of society in turmoil that focuses on two families to reveal what life is like under a totalitarian regime and what results when the regime collapses. The play's brief scenes are almost cinematic in their presentation of events as seen by ordinary people trying to live in peace. |
$24.95 |
