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Dark Voyager

  • John Misto
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Australian, 1960s
  • 1M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780992335588

You are cordially invited to join these legendary ladies for the ultimate show-biz meal. It has a menu with something to appeal to everyone: singing, dancing, party-games... and just a bit of murder.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy, Australian

  • Time Period: 1960s
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
Hollywood, 1962. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are at war. Between them they've terrorized movie studios for over three decades, married nine husbands, made two hundred films and guzzled enough booze to fill the Hoover Dam. Now their careers are on the skids and Bette and Joan are locked in a titanic struggle for top-billing on their latest movie.

When America's most feared columnist, Hedda Hopper, invites them to supper, they call an uneasy truce. But the evening turns chaotic when an unexpected guest arrives -- Marilyn Monroe, drunk, drugged, dishevelled, the face of "new" Hollywood. Soon Marilyn is drawn into the Davis-Crawford war, and what begins as a game becomes a battle for survival. Will old age and treachery defeat youth and courage? Or is there more to Marilyn Monroe than anyone could have guessed?

You are cordially invited to join these legendary ladies for the ultimate show-biz meal. It has a menu with something to appeal to everyone: singing, dancing, party-games... and just a bit of murder.
REVIEWS:

"Dark Voyager is simply a play that will speak to bold and liberated women everywhere, and of course, to the people who love them."

 Suzy Goes See

"John Misto taps into something pretty much universal, the passion, more to the point obsession that people have with everything to do with celebrity."

 Sydney Arts Guide

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

  • BETTE DAVIS (54) - an actor experiencing a lull in her career.
    JOAN CRAWFORD (58) - an actor experiencing a lull in her career also.
    HEDDA HOPPER (70) - a failed actor who has now become the most powerful columnist in the United States.
    MARILYN MONROE (36) - an actor with problems.
    SKIPPER (24) - a WAM (Waiter-Actor-Model)

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    Hollywood, 1962. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are at war. Between them they've terrorized movie studios for over three decades, married nine husbands, made two hundred films and guzzled enough booze to fill the Hoover Dam. Now their careers are on the skids and Bette and Joan are locked in a titanic struggle for top-billing on their latest movie. When America's most feared columnist, Hedda Hopper, invites them to supper, they call an uneasy truce. But the evening turns chaotic when an unexpected guest arrives -- Marilyn Monroe, dunk, drugged, dishevelled, the face of "new" Hollywood. Soon Marilyn is drawn into the Davis-Crawford war, and what begins as a game becomes a battle for survival. Will old age and treachery defeat youth and courage? Or is there more to Marilyn Monroe than anyone could have guessed?

    You are cordially invited to join these legendary ladies for the ultimate show-biz meal. It has a menu with something to appeal to everyone: singing, dancing, party-games... and just a bit of murder.

    		$24.95

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