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Too Long an Autumn

  • Jimmie Chinn
  • Short Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 3M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573122743

Long Autumn is a retirement home for theatricals. Maisie May, a former music-hall star, arrives and becomes increasingly depressed, until a breezy impresario, Chris, arrives with big plans for Maisie.

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Dinner Theatre, Professional Theatre, Senior Theatre
Long Autumn, appropriately named, is a retirement home for theatricals in the autumn of their lives, where euphemism reigns supreme, together with a firm belief that elderly equals senile.

Into their midst is flung Maisie May, a former music-hall star, too much of a burden for her strait-laced son and daughter-in-law, who do not find Maisie amusing. Initially the ever cheerful, irrepressible Maisie copes with the rigours of Long Autumn in her own inimitable style, but she becomes increasingly depressed. Then one day a breezy impresario, Chris, arrives with big plans for Maisie...

Laughter, tears, joy and some wonderful characters.

The play does contain a musical number to be performed by Maisie and Chris -- and this is available on request.
REVIEWS:

"A stark contrast came with a work that also looked at old age and memories hewn in stone. Jimmie Chinn's Too Long an Autumn, however, mixes sparkling humour with deep pathos in its story of an aging music hall star committed to a home for old 'theatricals' by her son and his wife... this is unadulterated entertainment."

Kentish Times, 1 May, 1997

Premiere Production: The play was first presented by Teddington Theatre Club at Hapton Court Theatre in 1985.
It was subsequently heard on Radio Four's Afternoon Theatre on Wednesday, 19th March, 1986 with Brenda Bruce, and directed by Gerry Jones.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 4F

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Long Autumn is a retirement home for theatricals. Maisie May, a former music-hall star, arrives and initially copes with the rigours of Long Autumn in her ever-cheerful, irrepressible style. She becomes increasingly depressed, however, until a breezy impresario arrive with big plans for Maisie ...

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