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Exhibit This! The Museum Comedies

  • Luigi Jannuzzi
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 36M or F
  • ISBN: 9780573651380

Plenty of plays on words and contemporary references that add humor and a twist.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set, Opportunity for Spectacle
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, College Theatre / Student, Church / Religious Groups

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! International Midtown Festival for Best One Act (for final monologue "Framed")
    Winner! NJTheater.com Perry Award for Best New Play in New Jersey Theatre
7 One Acts, 6 Monologues!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has come to life! A fast-paced series of SEVEN comedic plays and SIX monologues based on 50+ exhibits at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art in NYC. Paintings, sculptures, antiquities, & fertility gods emerge from their molds & frames. Mix in some artists, guards, critics, lovers, curators and one very special night and you have this new comedic hit. In fact, even the artwork speaks to the audience! Using a variety of theatrical styles and rhythms, on a single set, it can be done with 3 females, 2 males, or 36 people! Flexible casting makes it perfect for all schools and organizations.

The #1 Pick of New York Magazine!
REVIEWS:

Plenty of plays on words and contemporary references that add humor and a twist.

NYTheatre.com
Premiere Production: Exhibit This! The Museum Comedies and its component plays and monologues were first performed in two premiere productions: by The Peddie Players at The Peddie School in Hightstown, NJ,  in July 2005, directed by Michael Gallagher; and by Metropolitan Theatre Company at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, NJ, in July 2005, directed by the author.

Characters

  • Casting: 36M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Local Celebrity Cameo, Ensemble cast, Flexible casting, Room for Extras, Parts for Senior Actors, Cross gender casting, Expandable casting, Color blind casting, Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: Casting is extremely flexible. And since this play is 13 comedies, there are many ways this play may be presented.  It can be performed with as few as 5 or as many as 36. Feel free to change genders for guards, Curators, fertility gods, etc.It can and has been done with an all-female cast.

  • RAPHAEL - an artist
    RACHEL - in picture
    MONA - an artist
    MICHAEL - in picture
    JOSEPHINE - a young girl looking for love
    SPANISH SINGER - in an Edward Manet painting
    LADY (VICKY) WITH PARROT - in an Edward Manet painting, also plays Parrot's voice
    MAN IN BOAT - in an Edward Manet painting
    WOMAN IN BOAT - in an Edward Manet painting
    MARY MAGDALEN - as painted by Georges De la Tour
    QUEEN - Egyptian, mummified
    RA - Egyptian, mummified
    AGENT
    DISTRESSED CURATOR
    FERTILITY GODS - 4 or 5 actors with percussion instruments
    SALVATOR ROSA - as painted by himself
    BIRTH - female, a tapestry
    LOUIS XIV AS AIR - male, a tapestry
    GREENERY - male, a tapestry
    DORIS/DORIAN - an elderly museum patron
    SHARON - an elderly museum patron
    RICHARD/CHRISTINE - a museum guard in some trouble
    SOCRATES - as painted by Jacques Louis-David
    WOMAN - a distressed tourguide
    PAT - an actor playing guitar, as painted by Jean Antoine Watteau
    Plus various additional GUARDs, CURATORs, VOICEs, and PATRONs

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    7 One Acts, 6 Monologues!The Metropolitan Museum of Art has come to life! A fast-paced series of SEVEN comedic plays and SIX monologues based on 50+ exhibits at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art in NYC. Paintings, sculptures, antiquities, & fertility gods emerge from their molds & frames. Mix in some artists, guards, critics, lovers, curators and one very special night and you have this new comedic hit. In fact, even the artwork speaks to the audience! Using a variety of theatrical styles and rhythms, on a single set, it can be done with 3 females, 2 males, or 36 people! Flexible casting makes it perfect for all schools and organizations.The #1 Pick of New York Magazine!

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