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Don't Talk to the Actors

  • Tom Dudzick
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: ps1869

The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation, dive-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language
The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation, diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want.

Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of.

REVIEWS:

"Drop-dead, scream-out-loud, tear-wrenchingly funny."

 The Buffalo News

"Backstage comedies usually document the self-destruction of a show during a performance. Dudzick's play itself is so tightly constructed, fitting six well-developed characters together so precisely that it's hard to imagine this show falling apart. While Don't Talk to the Actors is well-stocked with funny lines and frantic moments, it's not the sort of comedy that lurches from joke to joke across the gaps where characters ought to be. The people on this stage are worth caring about, as written and as played."

 Tucson Weekly

"This thoroughly entertaining and hilarious play is good old fashioned story-telling."

 The Cypress Chronicle

"...tickles the funnybone while plucking the heart strings."

 Laguna Coastline Pilot

  • Casting: 3M, 3F

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The best laid plans go awry when the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound play resort to manipulation, diva-like behavior, and chaotic abandon to get what they want.

Fledgling playwright Jerry Przpezniak and his fiancee are a couple of Buffalo greenhorns suddenly swept up in the whirlwind of New York's theater scene when Jerry's play is optioned for the big money, ego-driven world of Broadway. It's a young playwright's dream, but the crazy characters and dilemmas they encounter are the things theatrical nightmares are made of.

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