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Mary Page Marlowe

  • Tracy Letts
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1980s, 1940s / WWII, New Millennium/21st Century, 1990s, 1950s, 1970s, 1960s
  • 6M, 12F
  • ISBN: 9780573705311

"[...] smartly constructed and ultimately quite moving."

Time Out Chicago

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: 1980s, 1940s / WWII, New Millennium/21st Century, 1990s, 1950s, 1970s, 1960s
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Professional Theatre
Mary Page Marlowe leads an unremarkable life. As an accountant in Ohio with two children, few would expect her life to be inordinately intricate or moving. However, it is choices, both mundane and gripping, and where those choices have taken Mary Page Marlowe that make her life so intimate and surprisingly complicated. 

From Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright Tracy Letts comes a piece about the fragility of a moment and its effects on one's identity.

REVIEWS:

"[...] deeply moving [...] you feel an intense desire for more scenes, more time in your seat, a deeper dive into the life, times and fate of the protagonist you are watching."

 Chicago Tribune

"[...] smartly constructed and ultimately quite moving."

 Time Out Chicago

"[...] brilliant [...] carefully conceived."

 Talkin' Broadway

Premiere Production: Mary Page Marlowe premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago in APril 2016 under the direction of Anna D. Shapiro.
  • Casting: 6M, 12F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Features Teens
  • Casting Notes: Wendy Gilbert, ages 16 and 20, should be played by the same actor. Roberta Marlowe, ages 19 and 32, should be played by the same actor.

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    MARY PAGE MARLOWE - 59, 63, and 69
    LOUIS GILBERT
    WENDY GILBERT
    LORNA
    CONNIE
    ANDY
    ED MARLOWE
    ROBERTA MARLOWE
    SHRINK
    NURSE
    RAY
    DAN
    BEN
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    Mary Page Marlowe leads an unremarkable life. As an accountant in Ohio with two children, few would expect her life to be inordinately intricate or moving. However, it is choices, both mundane and gripping, and where those choices have taken Mary Page Marlowe that make her life so intimate and surprisingly complicated. 

    From Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright Tracy Letts comes a piece about the fragility of a moment and its effects on one's identity.

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