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Tar Beach

  • Tammy Ryan
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 1970s
  • 1M, 4F
  • ISBN: TX9

It is July 1977—the Son of Sam is on the loose, and New York City is in the midst of a brutal heat wave. Sixteen-year-old Mary Claire and her best friend start that day sunning themselves on the roof of her family’s Ozone Park row house.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 100 minutes

  • Time Period: 1970s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
It is July 1977—the Son of Sam is on the loose, and New York City is in the midst of a brutal heat wave. Sixteen-year-old Mary Claire and her best friend start that day sunning themselves on the roof of her family’s Ozone Park row house. Her younger sister, Reenie, is searching for her lost Medusa head, a Greek mythology class project, while their parents are consumed by the battles of their troubled marriage. The boy-crazy teenagers hatch a plan to stay out all night, but an overstressed electrical grid leads to a city-wide blackout and a sudden loss of innocence.
REVIEWS:

"Has streaks of love and humor to leaven the depiction of a blue-collar family coming apart."

 Florida Theater OnStage

"Ryan’s dialogue and reporting of marital and familial interaction is simply superb."

 Florida Theater OnStage

"Tammy Ryan’s dialogue is rapid fire and she seems to have tapped into the ghosts of family arguments everywhere."

 Q on Stage

"This is a big, thick slice of life that is fiction and non-fiction, experience and observation, life and love and struggle."

 Q on Stage

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  • Casting: 1M, 4F

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It is July 1977—the Son of Sam is on the loose, and New York City is in the midst of a brutal heat wave. Sixteen-year-old Mary Claire and her best friend start that day sunning themselves on the roof of her family’s Ozone Park row house. Her younger sister, Reenie, is searching for her lost Medusa head, a Greek mythology class project, while their parents are consumed by the battles of their troubled marriage. The boy-crazy teenagers hatch a plan to stay out all night, but an overstressed electrical grid leads to a city-wide blackout and a sudden loss of innocence.

$19.95

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