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Black Jack: The Thief of Possession

Nominee! Pulitzer Prize for new American Drama
Winner! NYC Alice's Fourth Floor Prize for new plays

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

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

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Pulitzer Prize for new American Drama
    Winner! NYC Alice's Fourth Floor Prize for new plays
Black Jack the Thief of Possession exposes the greedy machinations of an eccentric Southern family squeezed into the close quarters of a Mississippi paddlewheel cruise ship for the New Year's holiday.

Matriarch Irene Dubonnet is determined to unravel the mystery of why her gorgeous daughter thinks she is a 19th century poet. Kaitlyn is channeling the poet Baudelaire, and hiding a secret.

Family members don costumes for New Year's Eve, casting off their old identities and trying to figure a new way to face Kaitlin's disturbing news with a buoyant attitude.

Blackjack is a sequel to O'Neill's card plays Wishing Aces, and Solitaire. The selective setting of deck of a paddleboat provides atmospheric staging possibilities for sounds and flashing lights.

The dialogue has a poetic quality and intensity of meaning that even surpasses its three predecessors. O'Neill finds a bombshell combination of '90s sexual dialogue, psychology, and occult metaphysics to move her plot line along.

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Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 4F, 12M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Expandable casting, Room for Extras
  • Casting Notes: Up to 12 m/f extras may be added.
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

  • IRENE SONIAT DUBONNET (MIMI) - 60's; a ravishing matriarch. Her family has roots in the nineteenth century, and she still presides over a vast Garden District house in New Orlenes.

  • LUISA GARCIA - Early 20's; an Hispanic medical student, too pretty for her office as Irene's companion; sleek and firm; she is poured into a shirt, jeans, and a nurse's jacket.

  • BUNKY DUBONNET LEGERE - 20s; a rock star and Irene's grandson; he has mood eyes that change colors and wild hair.

  • JAMESBEAUREGARD ELLIS (BEAU) - 40s; Bunky's stepfather; athletic and tanned; he dresses in Ivy League, navy and black blazers with shirts and sweaters of gray, blue and wine.

  • KAITLIN ELLIS - 40s; Bunky's mother; a delicate beauty with the clearest eyes and a porcelain complexion just beginning to crack from the strain of illness.

  • RORY DEBANGO - 40s-50s; single; there is something striking about her, an exotic strain of wild, unpredictable whimsy.

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    Black Jack the Thief of Possession exposes the greedy machinations of an eccentric Southern family squeezed into the close quarters of a Mississippi paddlewheel cruise ship for the New Year's holiday. Matriarch Irene Dubonnet is determined to unravel the mystery of why her gorgeous daughter thinks she is a 19th century poet. Kaitlyn is channeling the poet Baudelaire, and hiding a secret. Family members don costumes for New Year's Eve, casting off their old identities and trying to figure a new way to face Kaitlin's disturbing news with a buoyant attitude. Blackjack is a sequel to O'Neill's card plays Wishing Aces, and Solitaire. The selective setting of deck of a paddleboat provides atmospheric staging possibilities for sounds and flashing lights.

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