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Property

Greed permeates this contemporary romantic comedy set in a Garden District mansion in New Orleans. A young man is caught between his dedication to his family's past (and 'property') and his own very different future. Should he follow his heart and marry a New-Age nurse or succumb to his imperious society-driven mother Irene Dubonnet and drop her?

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • and citations from the Consul of Mexico, and the Consul of Japan in Louisiana, Winner! American Embassy invitation to Georgia, USSR
Property is about the doom and delight of too much wealth. Greed permeates this contemporary romantic comedy set in a Garden District mansion in New Orleans. A young man is caught between his dedication to his family's past (and 'property') and his own very different future. Should he follow his heart and marry a New-Age nurse or succumb to his imperious society-driven mother Irene Dubonnet and drop her? The satire intensifies because it's carnival in New Orleans when old and new traditions and masked traditions consume the family.

Property is a sequel to O'Neill's card plays Wishing Aces, Solitaire, and Black Jack, about matriarch Irene Dubonnet with many family members reappearing. The selective staging of a dayroom during Mardi Gras time draped with beads and costumes adds a heightened theatricality.

Premiere Production: Property was first produced in Thilisi, Republic of Georgia, in October 1999.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Room for Extras, Parts for Senior Actors, Expandable casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
  • Casting Notes: Parts for as many as 3 men and 10 women

  • IRENE SONIAT DUBONNET - Fifties. A landowner, she redefines the word style -- in designer dresses, and flawless makeup. Irene is one of those striking women -- nerves of steel, iron lungs, sharp as a tack -- who has nothing to do but protect her grown children, and she watches them like a dog guards her bone.

  • ROOSTER DUBONNET (Nicknamed Roo) - Late Twenties. A painter who has pushed himself beyond reasonable limits. He is critically ill from cancer. The disease gives him a distinct nonchalance, the charm of the damned.

  • BUNKY DUBONNET LEGERE - Early Twenties. Irene's grandson. He dresses like a rebel. His consuming interest is singing the blues. When he drinks, his personality changes into exaggerated gaiety and hair-trigger rage.

  • OOZIE RANSOM - Twenty-five to Fifty. Companion to Irene. Oozie is always fixing herself -- freshening her lipstick, puffing her hair, buffing her rings.

  • MONICA FALCON - Late Twenties. A nurse, attractive, with a passion for things of the spirit. Her gentleness is matched by delicate features: fine skin, graceful hands, hair which tumbles around her face.

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    Property is about the doom and delight of too much wealth. Greed permeates this contemporary romantic comedy set in a Garden District mansion in New Orleans. A young man is caught between his dedication to his family's past (and 'property') and his own very different future. Should he follow his heart and marry a New-Age nurse or succumb to his imperious society-driven mother Irene Dubonnet and drop her? The satire intensifies because it's carnival in New Orleans when old and new traditions and masked traditions consume the family. Property is a sequel to O'Neill's card plays Wishing Aces, Solitaire, and Black Jack, about matriarch Irene Dubonnet with many family members reappearing. The selective staging of a dayroom during Mardi Gras time draped with beads and costumes adds a heightened theatricality.

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