Come Back for Light Refreshments After the Service
- Short Play, Dramatic Comedy
- 1M, 5F
- ISBN: 9780573601309
"Delightfully touching... Full of gentle humor and a charmingly observed study of three generations of women."
The Stage
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Description
- Short Play
- Dramatic Comedy
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Accolades:
- Winner! Fringe Award for Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Beth is preparing food for her father's wake -- real sandwiches, cakes, etc. that will be served to the audience as they become the mourners visiting after the funeral. Beth, who nursed her Alzheimer's stricken father for five years, plans to sell the house and go backpacking, despite other's disapproval.
This play about relationships and understanding garnered rave reviews and a Fringe Award for excellence at the Edinburgh Festival.
REVIEWS:
This play about relationships and understanding garnered rave reviews and a Fringe Award for excellence at the Edinburgh Festival.
REVIEWS:
"Delightfully touching... Full of gentle humor and a charmingly observed study of three generations of women."
The Stage
Premiere Production:
Come Back for Light Refreshments After the Service was first presented by Field-Day Enterprises at the Carlton Courthouse Theatre on 6th February, 1991.
Characters
- Casting: 1M, 5F
REV. JAMES HEALEY - the family priest (Anglican)
ENID - a woman in her early seventies, life long neighbor of the deceased
PAT - a woman in her forties, and neighbor of Beth for fifteen years
VANESSA - a nineteen year-old niece of Pat's
A SINGER
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Beth is preparing food for her father's wake -- real sandwiches, cakes, etc. that will be served to the audience as they become the mourners visiting after the funeral. Beth, who nursed her Alzheimer's stricken father for five years, plans to sell the house and go backpacking, despite other's disapproval. |
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