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Maytag Virgin

  • Audrey Cefaly
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573706202

"Maytag Virgin is a witty and earnest meditation on how people connect even when they feel they're not ready, and what it is to move on while honoring and remembering the things, and people, who came before."

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult, Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Maytag Virgin follows Alabama school teacher Lizzy Nash and her new neighbor, Jack Key, over the year following the tragic death of Lizzy's husband. The play explores the ideas of inertia and self-enlightenment, and the bridge between the two.
REVIEWS:

"Cefaly makes her characters rich and mixed-up enough for us to build some real affection for them [...] It's sweet stuff."

 The Washington Post

"Audrey Cefaly's unflinchingly honest story is one no one should miss; take your mom and 'dem and don't miss it!"

 DC Metro Theatre Arts

"Maytag Virgin is a witty and earnest meditation on how people connect even when they feel they're not ready, and what it is to move on while honoring and remembering the things, and people, who came before."

 DC Theatre Scene

"[...] a heart-warmer of a play [...] Cefaly write with sympathy and a finely-sharpened wit."

 Broadway World

Premiere Production: Maytag Virgin premiered at the Quotidian Theatre in Bethesda, MD as a part of the inaugural Women's Voices Theatre Festival in October 2015 under the direction of Audrey Cefaly.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Role(s) for Black Actor(s)

  • ELIZABETH "LIZZY" NASH - High school English teacher, 30s-40s, Southern (Alabama)
    JACK KEY - High school Physics teacher, 30s-40s, Southern (Alabama)

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    Maytag Virgin follows Alabama school teacher Lizzy Nash and her new neighbor, Jack Key, over the year following the tragic death of Lizzy's husband. The play explores the ideas of inertia and self-enlightenment, and the bridge between the two.

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