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Come to the Garden

  • Lisa Soland
  • Short Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573697296

Soland's work is so audience friendly...she has an uncanny ear for dialogue.

Los Angeles Times

  • Short Play
  • Drama
  • 10 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
From the author of Cabo San Lucas, Waiting, and Truth be Told, comes six new one act plays about love and relationship contained in the collection The Man in the Gray Suit and Other Plays.

Perfect for any theatre.

REVIEWS:

Ms. Soland has developed several plays...all interesting, all clever, all unique. She is gorgeously talented.' - Charles Nelson Reilly'Soland's work is so audience friendly...she has an uncanny ear for dialogue.

Los Angeles Times
Premiere Production: Come to the Garden was first presented at the Annual Summer Shorts Festival, Bryant Lake Bowl, Theatre Limina, in Minneapolis, MN, in 2006.
The play was also part of The Limbo Plays Project with The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at Cleveland State University, January 30, 2008.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Color blind casting, Flexible casting, Minority casting
  • Casting Notes: This couple can be any age that is applicable to childbearing years.

  • WIFE - mourning the loss of her third child
    HUSBAND - husband to wife, who works hard to support them, mourning as well in his own quiet way