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Writers' Runaround

The literary world is turned upside down in this funny and clever program of six comic playlets that allows for a wide variety of casting.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Farce, Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Area Staging

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student
The literary world is turned upside down in this funny and clever program of six comic playlets that allows for a wide variety of casting.

Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde argue about Star Wars and Harry Potter in a sports bar; Homer confronts his agent about his new epic poem; Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson meet through a computer dating service; a contemporary couple encounters literary nonsense in a library; and some historians learn details about Shakespeare's life by going through his trash.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting

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The literary world is turned upside down in this funny and clever program of six comic playlets that allows for a wide variety of casting.

Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde argue about Star Wars and Harry Potter in a sports bar; Homer confronts his agent about his new epic poem; Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson meet through a computer dating service; a contemporary couple encounters literary nonsense in a library; and some historians learn details about Shakespeare's life by going through his trash.

$19.95

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