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Cementville
Cementville
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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
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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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