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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
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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
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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.
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