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Cementville

Cementville
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Jane Martin
Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 102
Pub. Date: 1991
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0573692475
ISBN-13: 9780573692475
Cast Size: 9 female, 5 male, and 4 extras

About the Play:

Cementville is a comedy by Jane Martin. This zany free-for-all is the tale of a group of down-on-their-luck female professional wrestlers and their blow-hard manager as they attempt to put on a series of matches where everything goes wrong. Her first full-length play, Cementville is a brilliant portrayal of America's fascination with fantasy entertainment.

Cementville takes place in the locker room of a seedy boxing arena in Cementville, Tennessee. Here you meet a team of has-been and never-will-be professional lady wrestlers that includes: Tiger, an old veteran of the ring who has a drinking problem and a small dog; Dani, a woman at the top of her game who displays a chip on her shoulder against the promoter who owes the girls several weeks' pay; Lessa, an Olympic shot putter with delusions of being a pro athlete, and Netty, an overweight older woman who appears in the ring as "Pajama Mama." The naive Nola, a local groupie and wrestling wannabe, and Dottie and Dolly Crocker, a glitzy tag team known as "The Knockout Sisters", refugees from the Big Time banned for drug and other tawdry abuses, complete the roster for tonight's main attraction. Sparks fly when the troupe discovers they've been relegated to second billing by the Knockouts. The comic sensation of the 1991 Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cementville is a radical departure from her previous popular works.

Cementville premiered in 1991 at the famed Actors Theatre of Louisville as part of the annual Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky, an influential showplace for playwrights. Since then, it has been performed in regional theatres across the US and quickly became a favourite play on the college circuit.

Cast: 9 female, 5 male, and 4 extras

What people say:

"Jane Martin's Cementville, is a comedy that theatergoers are likely to find irresistible, which proves that big laughs still depend on raunchiness, colorful anatomical references, and slapping people around – hard." — The Christian Science Monitor

"Welcome to the urine-smelling locker room of a boxing arena in deepest Tennessee. And welcome to one of the funniest pieces of Southern comedy since Steel Magnolias." — Calgary Herald

"This is easily one of my favorites this season. Jane Martin's professional wrestling locker room comedy/drama plays on many different levels – often at once and often quite successfully ... The complexity of Martin's script often plays comedy as drama and vice-versa. What's more, the script switches modes often enough that it can sometimes blur the difference between, say, a dark comedy with serious dramatic undertones and a serious drama that plays with comedy for dramatic effect." — Shepherd Express

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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