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Shadow Box, The

  • Michael Cristofer
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary, 1970s
  • 5M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573616136

An important, touching and courageous play...Triumphantly turns up...Cristopher writes with the compassion of the undamned. An extraordinarily good Broadway play with meaty roles for actors.

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary, 1970s
  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
    Winner! 1977 Tony® Award for Best Play
In this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter's dementia; Brian and Beverly, whose martial complications are exacerbated by Brian's new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe's impending death and its effect on their teenage son.
REVIEWS:

An important, touching and courageous play...Triumphantly turns up...Cristofer writes with the compassion of the undamned. An extraordinarily good Broadway play with meaty roles for actors.

The New York Times

Thunders with life.' - ABC TV 'By far the finest play of the New York season, beautifully realized drama of sensitive perceptions often as funny as it is moving.

Washington Post

Extraordinary. An overwhelming emotional experience. Truly startling and in its uncompromising way, very funny.

Boston Globe
Premiere Production: The Shadow Box opened on March 31, 1977 at the Morosco Theatre in New York.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 4F

  • Cottage One:
    JOE
    MAGGIE
    STEVE

    Cottage Two:
    BRIAN
    MARK
    BEVERLY

    Cottage Three:
    FELICITY
    AGNES

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    Shadow Box, The Script Order Now

    In this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter's dementia; Brian and Beverly, whose martial complications are exacerbated by Brian's new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe's impending death and its effect on their teenage son.

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