Failure: A Love Story
- Full Length Play, Comedy, 1920s
- 2M, 3F, 2M or F
- ISBN: ps2695
"Fantastically macabre."
The Huffington Post
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 95 minutes
- Time Period: 1920s
- Set Requirements: Minimal
- Performance Group:
- High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
A magical, musical fable where, in the end, the power of love is far greater than any individual's successes or failures.
REVIEWS:
"Fantastically macabre."
The Huffington Post
"A wholly wonderful show that is profound, yet at the very same time whimsical beyond all imagining -- a show in which time is of the essence, and in which love and death (especially death that comes suddenly and prematurely) conjoin in the strangest yet most beautiful of waltzes."
The Chicago Sun Times
"A Chicago tale full of emotional riches... In particular and most movingly, the play is probing the whole idea of how all of our loves and out happiness are, alas, bound by the confines of time."
The Chicago Tribune
Characters
- Casting: 2M, 3F, 2M or F
- Casting Attributes: Expandable casting
- Casting Notes: 7-50 actors possible: 3-48 f, 2-47 m
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By the end of 1928, all three Fail sisters will be dead -- expiring in reverse order, youngest to oldest, from blunt objects to the head, disappearance, and finally consumption. Tuneful songs, and a whimsical chorus follow the story of Nelly, Jenny June, and Gerty as they live out their lives above the family clock repair shop near the Chicago river, before their time unexpectedly runs out. |
$24.95 |
