{"product_id":"the-great-nebula-in-orion-and-three-other-plays","title":"The Great Nebula in Orion and Three Other Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE GREAT NEBULA IN ORION. This fascinating and brilliantly inventive play details the chance meeting  after many years  of two girlhood friends. One has \"married well\" and the other has achieved a successful career  but  for both  as their poignant and telling conversation reveals  there is an aching emptiness beneath the elegant veneer of their lives. (2 women.) THE FAMILY CONTINUES. A haunting play of memory  written in a stream-of-consciousness contrapuntal style  which evokes the panorama of a young mans life birth  army service  marriage  job  parenthood  old age within the brief span of its action. Highly innovative in its theatricality  the play illuminates not only the continuity of human life  but also the poignancy and bitterness that can infuse it. (5 men  5 women  flexible casting.) IKKE  IKKE  NYE  NYE  NYE. This explosively funny and ingenious farce deals with what might have been a seduction but while she is all for it (despite her feeble protests) he has eyes only for her telephone. And what he cant say to her face  floods out readily on the phone  with hilarious and devastating results. (1 man  1 woman.) VICTORY ON MRS. DANDYWINES ISLAND. A high-style spoof on comedy in the Oscar Wilde mode  which keeps a delightfully straight face while poking fun at the stilted behavior of its very proper characters. The scene is the sitting room of Mrs. Dandywines elegant summer \"cottage \" where things take a flustered turn at the unexpected arrival of a man who  of course  must be up to no good. (2 men  3 women.)\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948663926837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0822203820","price":58.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780822203827_8d7b1172-49c0-4ae5-8593-c9ff44d91ad2.jpg?v=1770370676","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-great-nebula-in-orion-and-three-other-plays","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}