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Be A Good Little Widow

  • Bekah Brunstetter
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573699696

"Delicately satisfying...[Ms. Brunstetter] writes fresh, unfussy dialogue and characters who earn their laughs and emotional moments by honest means."

The New York Times

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Young wife Melody has never been to a funeral – until her husband dies in a plane crash. Expected to instantly assume proper widowhood, Melody is left to wonder, what's the right way to grieve?

Fortunately, her mother-in-law is a professional. Widow, that is. Under her guidance, Melody must try her best to be a good little widow.

A sad comedy about loss and longing.

REVIEWS:

Delicately satisfying...[Ms. Brunstetter] writes fresh, unfussy dialogue and characters who earn their laughs and emotional moments by honest means. – The New York Times'Bekah Brunstetter's powerful new play marries the humor and sadness of grief. Brunstetter's words pierce the soul, and she makes the depths of the human experience profoundly relatable...Her multidimensional characters' pain radiated through my veins, and at the end, I just wanted to feel it all over again. Critic's Pick.'

Backstage
Premiere Production: Be a Good Little Widow premiered at Ars Nova in New York City in May 2011 under the direction of Stephen Brackett.
  • Casting: 2M, 2F

MELODY - a young wife, 26
CRAIG - her slightly older husband, 30
BRAD - Craig's friend and co-worker, Melody's age
HOPE - mid-50s, Craig's mother, a widow since '82

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Young wife Melody has never been to a funeral – until her husband dies in a plane crash. Expected to instantly assume proper widowhood, Melody is left to wonder, what's the right way to grieve? Fortunately, her mother-in-law is a professional. Widow, that is. Under her guidance, Melody must try her best to be a good little widow. A sad comedy about loss and longing.

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