When Is A Clock
- Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day
- 5M, 3F
- ISBN: 9780573670190
When Gordon's wife vanishes, the only clue to her whereabouts is a bookmark in dog-eared copy of Traveling to Montpelier. With little help to be found at work, from his son, or from the police, Gordon takes off to a rural bookstore to find some answers.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dramatic Comedy
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
His journey brings him to the town of Cornersville, in the wilds of Pennsylvania.Through a fractured narrative that is half-mystery and half-memory, we learn about Gordon's marriage, his relationship with his son, his work-life and his wife's bizarre entanglements with a mysterious stranger. We learn, too, about the nature of the landscape unique to the play: a magical universe with physics and laws that can both free the characters from their own stifling identities, and trap them as well. Synchronicity, dreams, and alchemy combine in this exploration of what it means to be able to – and unable to – change.
At turns both scathingly funny and disturbingly compelling, When Is A Clock features Freeman's celebrated deconstruction of American culture - which has been called 'nonviolent, though as savage as any slasher film' by the New York Times.
There s a monologue that deserves to be enshrined in some kind of hall of fame: it's savvy and preposterous and utterly original...appealingly abnormal...
Neil Genzlinger The New York Times
Characters
- Casting: 5M, 3F
- Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
BRONWYN - a middle aged woman.
ALEX - Gordon and Bronwyn's son.
SEAN - who owns a bookstore in Cornersville.
CAROLINE - a co-worker of Gordon's
COP - a Cop
LUCY - a young woman
CALDWELL - a co-worker of Gordon's
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When Gordon's wife vanishes, the only clue to her whereabouts is a bookmark in dog-eared copy of Traveling to Montpelier. With little help to be found at work, from his son, or from the police, Gordon takes off to a rural bookstore to find some answers. His journey brings him to the town of Cornersville, in the wilds of Pennsylvania.Through a fractured narrative that is half-mystery and half-memory, we learn about Gordon's marriage, his relationship with his son, his work-life and his wife's bizarre entanglements with a mysterious stranger. We learn, too, about the nature of the landscape unique to the play: a magical universe with physics and laws that can both free the characters from their own stifling identities, and trap them as well. Synchronicity, dreams, and alchemy combine in this exploration of what it means to be able to – and unable to – change. At turns both scathingly funny and disturbingly compelling, When Is A Clock features Freeman's celebrated deconstruction of American culture - which has been called 'nonviolent, though as savage as any slasher film' by the New York Times. |
$24.95 |
