Ghost on Fire
- Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
- 7M, 5F
- ISBN: 9780573696251
A poignant play suffused with humor.... A witty and rueful elegy for a generation weaned on such high idealism, learning that there are limitations to life.
N.Y. Times.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dramatic Comedy
- 105 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Performance Group:
- Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Neil doesn't know that he has a brain tumor and limited time in which to rekindle the spark of old dreams. Dan doesn't realize how turning his back on his talent started a chain reaction in every aspect of his life. Their effort to make a low budget movie brings each to a moment of reckoning and reconciliation.
REVIEWS:
Weller manages to cry out from deep inside his generation's soul.
Chicago Tribune.
Exhilarating.
Chicago Daily Herald.
We don't have a more fluent playwright than Michael Weller.
L.A. Times.
A poignant play suffused with humor.... A witty and rueful elegy for a generation weaned on such high idealism, learning that there are limitations to life.
N.Y. Times.
Weller's work, one suspects, will outlast most of his more voguish contemporaries.
Variety.
Characters
- Casting: 7M, 5F
LAUREL - a graduate student, early 20's
NEIL TOOMIE - a camera operator, late 30's
JULIA RITTMAN - Dan's wife, mid-30's
TOM COOPER - soap opera star, late 30's
RALPH - dissolute English doctor/poet, 40's
ADEN PALTZ - philosopher, early 40's
MICHELLE-MARIE - Neil's wife, mid-20's
GINA - Avram's companion
AVRAM SCHENKER - Israeli millionaire, 40's
NATHAN BERGER - rural black man, mid-70's
NURSE (may double with Gina)
Available Material
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After showing dazzling promise in school but no success in Hollywood, director Dan Rittman suffered a breakdown and quit film making. Cameraman Neil Toomie, a hilarious, irreverent lapsed Catholic, shows up five years later with a horror film project he wants his friend to direct. Neil doesn't know that he has a brain tumor and limited time in which to rekindle the spark of old dreams. Dan doesn't realize how turning his back on his talent started a chain reaction in every aspect of his life. Their effort to make a low budget movie brings each to a moment of reckoning and reconciliation. |
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