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A Feminine Ending

A Feminine Ending
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Sarah Treem
Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 76
Pub. Date: 2009
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 057365235X
ISBN-13: 9780573652356
Cast Size: 2 female, 3 male

About the Play:

A Feminine Ending has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and Female/Male Scenes.

A Feminine Ending is a full-length dark comedy by Sarah Treem. Young composer Amanda Blue knows what she wants, but not quite how to get it. Her parents are splitting up, her fiancé is almost famous, her first love reappears … there's a lot of noise in her head, but none of it is music she wants to hear.

A Feminine Ending is a carefully composed journey from where you are, to where you'll go. Having recently graduated from a major conservatory, and with a rocker boyfriend on the brink of stardom, aspiring composer Amanda Blue's "extraordinary life" seems to be all mapped out. But when she's called home to answer her mother's distress call about a [marriage in crisis/marital crisis], Amanda's grand plan starts to unravel. A Feminine Ending is a bittersweet play from the writer of HBO's House of Cards and In Treatment about dreams deferred, loves lost and learning to trust a woman's voice in a man's world.

Feminine Ending premiered in 2007 at Playwrights Horizons off-Broadway in New York City and went on to regional productions at South Coast Repertory and Portland Center Stage, among others. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has been mounted by colleges and community theatres.

Cast: 2 female, 3 male

What people say:

"A Feminine Ending is a promising beginning...the playwright has a sense of humor that brings to mind a budding Wendy Wasserstein and a liberated sense of form that evokes a junior Paula Vogel." — Los Angeles Times

"Darkly comic...has undeniable wit." — New York Post

"Appealingly outlandish humor." — The New York Times

"Courageous. The 90-minute piece swerves with nerve and naivete. Sarah Treem has a voice all her own." — Newsday

About the Playwright:

Sarah Treem is an American TV writer, showrunner, and playwright. She started out her career in Theatre, before moving to write for Television. Her first foray into Television, was writing and producing all three seasons of the acclaimed HBO series In Treatment, for which she won a WGA Award and was nominated for a Humanities Award. From there, she moved on to write and co-executive produce the inaugural season of the political drama House of Cards, which was nominated for a Pimetime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. She is the co-creator and showrunner of the Golden Globe-winning Showtime drama The Affair, which won for Outstanding Drama Series. She has taught playwriting at Yale University, where she earned her B.A. and M.F.A.

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