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Anton in Show Business
Anton in Show Business
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Author: Jane Martin Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 86 Pub. Date: 2018 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0573627452 ISBN-13: 9780573627453 Cast Size: 7 female
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About the Play:
Anton in Show Business has
become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and
Female/Female Scenes.
Anton in Show Business is a full-length comedy by Jane
Martin. This madcap comedy follows the trials and tribulations of
three actresses cast in an ill-fated production of Chekhov's classic,
"The Three Sisters". A satiric comedy that also echoes
poignant themes of this classic Chekhov play, Anton in Show
Business is theatrical, but the themes of insecurity, following
one's dreams, and trying to balance art and life, are universal.
Anton in Show Business follows Casey Mulgraw, a veteran
actress who has more than 200 off-off Broadway productions (without
ever drawing a salary), Lisabette Cartwright, a naive recent graduate
of acting school, and Holly Seabé, an out-of-work Hollywood film and
TV actress who is trying to restart her career with a legitimate
theatre role, whom collectively are on a quest to put on an Anton
Chekhov classic: "The Three Sisters." As these women pursue
their dream of performing Chekhov in a regional theatre company,
they're whisked through a maelstrom of "good ideas" that
offer unique solutions to the Three Sisters' need to have life's
deeper purpose revealed. In the tradition of great backstage
comedies, Anton in Show Business is a play within a play
(within a play) that conveys the joys, pains and absurdities of
"putting on a show" with keen wit, acute irony and
perceptive humour. In a twist on the custom of the olden days in
theatre, when female characters would be played by male actors, the
all-female cast plays characters of both genders.
Anton in Show Business premiered in 2000 at the famed
Actors Theatre of Louisville and wowed audiences as part of the
annual Festival of New American Plays, an influential showplace for
playwrights. It was directed of Jon Jory whose notes are published
with the play. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in
acting classes and workshops and is regularly performed in regional,
college, and fringe theatre productions.
Cast: 7 female
What people say:
"A smart, acerbic crowd
pleaser [...] Simultaneously a love letter and a poison pen letter to
the American theatre." — Variety
"Funny, smart, wry and
poignant." — Miami Herald
"Consciously an example of the
problem it addresses, often with aching hilarity, that the world of
theatre is growing ever more estranged from the straightforward
business of telling stories." — The New York Times
About the Playwright:
Jane Martin, apparently from Kentucky, has been referred to
as "America's best known, unknown playwright". The name
Jane Martin is widely believed to be a pseudonym. She has been
nominated for the Pulitzer prize, and won the American Theatre
Critics Association New Play Award twice. But she has never made any
public appearances or spoken about any of her works. Nor has she ever
given an interview. No biographical details are known about her. No
photographs of Ms. Martin have ever been published.
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