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Through a Glass, Darkly

  • Tina Howe
  • Short Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573696763

Things spin out of control when a young playwright visits her optometrist for an emergency eye exam.

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 10 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Things spin out of control when a young playwright visits her optometrist for an emergency eye exam.

A part of the collection Shrinking Violets and Towering Tiger Lilies.

Premiere Production: Through a Glass, Darkly premiered at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City in 2006 under the direction of Christian Parker.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F

  • DR. NIKOLAI CHEKHOV - an opthamologist, 40s
    KITTY BRIGHT - his patient, a playwright, 30s