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Tribute

  • Bernard Slade
  • Full Length Play, Drama
  • 3M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573617201

Very funny, and at the same time a touching work.

WABC TV

Slade can blend comedy and pathos skillfully... He can also slice cleanly into truth.

Wall Street Journal

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
Scottie Templeton's a charming, irresponsible fellow. A sometime Broadway press agent and former scriptwriter, he's everyone's friend, nobody's hero and a great womanizer who's managed to live over fifty years without taking anything seriously including love, marriage and fatherhood. Life's been one continuous gag. But at fifty one, he finds the script's been rewritten as a tragedy: he is fatally ill.

His son Jud, alienated by years of neglect, comes to visit. Scottie's one concern is to make friends with his son, for everyone else adores Scottie including his ex wife, his friend and boss, and his doctor, and after a bitter, revealing confrontation, father and son are reconciled. And it is Jud who gets Scottie to agree to be rehospitalized for treatment and then organizes a giant tribute to his father in a theatre.
REVIEWS:

Very funny, and at the same time a touching work.' - WABC TV'Slade can blend comedy and pathos skillfully.... He can also slice cleanly into truth.

Wall Street Journal

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 4F

  • LOU DANIELS - A chunky, affable New Yorker in his early fifties who looks older than his years.
    DR. GLADYS PETRELLI - Fifties, shrewd, maternal and approachable.
    SCOTTIE TEMPLETON - Fifty-one but looks ten years younger. An elegant, charming, pixieish man. A mixture of Noel Coward, the Marx Brothers and Peter Pan.
    SALLY HAINES - A beautiful girl in her early twenties.
    MAGGIE STRATTON - Scottie's first wife. Mid-foties, feminine, intelligent, sympathetic.
    JUD TEMPLETON - Scottie's twenty-year-old son. Shy, intelligent, awkward and intense.
    HILARY - A blonde, crisp, well-groomed, attractive woman in her thirties.

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    Scottie Templeton's a charming, irresponsible fellow. A sometime Broadway press agent and former scriptwriter, he's everyone's friend, nobody's hero and a great womanizer who's managed to live over fifty years without taking anything seriously including love, marriage and fatherhood. Life's been one continuous gag. But at fifty one, he finds the script's been rewritten as a tragedy: he is fatally ill. His son Jud, alienated by years of neglect, comes to visit. Scottie's one concern is to make friends with his son, for everyone else adores Scottie including his ex wife, his friend and boss, and his doctor, and after a bitter, revealing confrontation, father and son are reconciled. And it is Jud who gets Scottie to agree to be rehospitalized for treatment and then organizes a giant tribute to his father in a theatre.

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