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Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Ed Graczyk
Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 104
Pub. Date: 2010
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0573607648
ISBN-13: 9780573607646
Cast Size: 8 female, 1 male

About the Play:

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and Female/Female Scenes.

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean is a full-length dramatic comedy by Ed Graczyk. A group of women reunite for a meeting of their James Dean fan club, trading memories and memorabilia of the famous screen star to compensate for their own unhappy lives. Who is the mysterious stranger and what's the real troubled and disturbing story behind Mona's son, James Dean Junior?

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean takes place in the small West Texas town of McCarthy in 1975. Inside of a five-and-dime store, the members of a local 1950s fan club the "Disciples of James Dean" gather for their twentieth reunion on the anniversary of his death. Now middle-aged women, they were teenagers when James Dean filmed Giant two decades ago in nearby Marfa. Mona, who was an extra in the film, has a child whom she says was conceived with Dean during the shoot. The ladies' congenial reminiscences mingle with flashbacks to their youth; then a stunning-but-familiar stranger, Joanne, stops in to reveal that she is hardly the stranger they believe her to be. This sets off a series of confrontations that smash their delusions and expose bitter disappointments changing their lives forever. Tender and amusing, this play explores the issues of love, loyalty, friendship and hidden secrets.

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean was first produced in 1975 by Players Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. The play received its professional premier in 1977 by the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and was produced off-off-Broadway in 1980 and on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre in 1982. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and is regularly performed in regional repertory, college, and community theatre productions.

Cast: 8 female, 1 male

What people say:

"Captures convincingly the atmosphere of the 1950s." — Women's Wear Daily

"A work of amazing dramatic power [...] ingenious, shocking [...] funny, brimming with pathos, wise and full of wonder at the sometimes sinister tricks of life. The best play I have seen in years." — Gannett Newspapers

"A challenging piece of theatre." — The London Standard (UK)

"Full of home spun humor [and] [...] surefire comic gems." — New York Post

About the Playwright:

Ed Graczyk is an American theatre director, designer, administrator, and playwright, who led Players Theatre in Columbus, Ohio from the 1970s into the early 1990s. He has worked with a variety of theatre companies including the Hartford Stage Company, Front Street Theatre, Honolulu Community Theatre and the Erie Playhouse. He wrote several children's plays early in his career, but became better known as the author of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.