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Having Hope at Home

  • David S. Craig
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: HH2

Carolyn has one evening to cook a three-course turkey dinner, make peace with her parents, get married in her grandmother's dress and hide the fact that she's in labor. What could possibly go wrong?

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 100 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Carolyn has one evening to cook a three-course turkey dinner, make peace with her parents, get married in her grandmother's dress and hide the fact that she's in labor. What could possibly go wrong? Having Hope at Home is a side-splitting look at a family learning to love again.

On a cold winter night, in a drafty farmhouse, Carolyn goes into labor just as her parents arrive for dinner. She can't tell them she's having a home birth, as her father is the head of gynecology at the local hospital. She has to pretend everything is normal including passing off the midwife as the vet. Good intentions dissolve as modern medicine meets midwifery in a torrent of family feuding over where this baby should be born.

As tensions rise between the three stubborn generations of family members, so does the laughter. It takes some serious truth-telling and a baby's birth to heal the rift in this hilarious, heartwarming story of forgiveness and hope. A light comedy with serious intentions, the play shows us how the human heart sometimes takes the long way home.
REVIEWS:

"Will have you shedding tears of laughter one minute and tears of empathy the next. Just when it veers toward sentimentality, the production steers back toward heart-felt poignancy."

 Waterloo Record

"Sweetly comic, wise and wonderful, it's a journey from anger and estrangement to where the heart reconnects with the joy of what it means to be alive."

 The Hamilton Spectator

"A series of dramatic confrontations between city and country, birth and death, hospital deliveries and midwifery, French and English Canada, authority and rebellion."

 The Globe and Mail

"A fantastic show that delivers humorous, heartfelt and insightful moments."

 The Elgin Review

"A delight-filled domestic comedy using heart-felt humor to convey its hopeful message about coping with the challenges of family life."

 The London Free Press

"Everything you could hope for -- delightfully funny when it wants to be and dramatic when it has to be. Having Hope at Home disarms you with its sitcom architecture, letting you sit back and enjoy some perfectly constructed comedy."

 The Star Phoenix

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  • Casting: 3M, 3F

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Carolyn has one evening to cook a three-course turkey dinner, make peace with her parents, get married in her grandmother's dress and hide the fact that she's in labor. What could possibly go wrong? Having Hope at Home is a side-splitting look at a family learning to love again.

On a cold winter night, in a drafty farmhouse, Carolyn goes into labor just as her parents arrive for dinner. She can't tell them she's having a home birth, as her father is the head of gynecology at the local hospital. She has to pretend everything is normal including passing off the midwife as the vet. Good intentions dissolve as modern medicine meets midwifery in a torrent of family feuding over where this baby should be born.

As tensions rise between the three stubborn generations of family members, so does the laughter. It takes some serious truth-telling and a baby's birth to heal the rift in this hilarious, heartwarming story of forgiveness and hope. A light comedy with serious intentions, the play shows us how the human heart sometimes takes the long way home.

$19.95

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