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Delightful Quarantine, A

  • Mark Dunn
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 5M, 12F
  • ISBN: 9780573650673

What would it be like to be confined with people you don't really know? Strange visitors leave behind a deadly disease that leaves seven separate households unexpectedly quarantined. Tells interwoven stories through a large ensemble cast.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, Dinner Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
An extra-terrestrial "invasion" of the suburban, middle-class community of Susqua Creek Acres, Pennsylvania places its human residents and visitors under sudden house-bound quarantine. Secrets get revealed, conflicts erupt and recede, long festering wounds are dressed, and friendships and relationships terminated or reinstated.

Offering the rare opportunity for large ensemble casting, A Delightful Quarantine presents audiences with the interwoven stories of a mother reunited with the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-two years earlier; a man with a secret that upends his marriage; a woman with fourteen cats, all invisible; a foiled house burglary that must wait three days for the police; a rekindled high school romance; two young couture-obsessed little girls "home alone" for the duration; and a brother who cannot honor his sick sister's greatest wish.
REVIEWS:

"Sharp and witty, warm and very, very funny."

 Williamsport Sun-Gazette

Premiere Production:

A Delightful Quarantine was commissioned by the Community Theatre League in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, as part of the author's long association with this theatre through his playwright's residency there. It premiered on November 3, 2006. It was directed by Tom Ryersbach.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 12F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Drag Performance, Non-Traditional casting, Features Children, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: A Delightful Quarantine was written as a large ensemble piece. It also offers fun roles for two youthful actresses (who can play eleven years of age) and a star-turn, of sorts, via the role of the story's professorial narrator.

  • PROFESSOR LUCY FULLER - the narrator

  • House A
    BARBARA MIDDLEBROOK - age 50
    PAULA MIDDLEBROOK-CLOBB - her daughter, age 32
    KITTY CIVETTE - Paula's twin sister age 32

  • House B
    JUDEEN DEMPSEY - age 48
    CHESTER BANDERHORN - age 49

  • House C
    BETHANY ROBBINS - age 38
    CLARK WIGGLIN - age 38

  • House D
    SHIRLEY WIGGLIN - age 38
    ROY ROBBINS - age 38

  • House E
    DIANDRA ROBBINS - age 11
    JENNIFER WIGGLIN - age 11

  • House F
    SUE STADLER - age 28
    DEAN STADLER - age 26

  • House G
    VIOLET BASSEY - age 70
    MAVIS JEMCO - age 71
    TUG GOFF - age 20

  • THE HAZ MAT SQUAD - all hooded and anonymous

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    An extra-terrestrial "invasion" of the suburban, middle-class community of Susqua Creek Acres, Pennsylvania places its human residents and visitors under sudden house-bound quarantine. Secrets get revealed, conflicts erupt and recede, long festering wounds are dressed, and friendships and relationships terminated or reinstated.

    Offering the rare opportunity for large ensemble casting, A Delightful Quarantine presents audiences with the interwoven stories of a mother reunited with the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-two years earlier; a man with a secret that upends his marriage; a woman with fourteen cats, all invisible; a foiled house burglary that must wait three days for the police; a rekindled high school romance; two young couture-obsessed little girls "home alone" for the duration; and a brother who cannot honor his sick sister's greatest wish.

    		$24.95

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