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A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking

A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
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Author: John Ford Noonan
Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 53
Pub. Date: 1981
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0573630178
ISBN-13: 9780573630170
Cast Size: 2 female

About the Play:

A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female/Female Scenes.

A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking is a full-length comedy by John Ford Noonan. This two-character scene study staple takes place in the suburban New York kitchen of prim Maude Mix, who is having a tough day: her husband is off on a weekend spree with his secretary and she can't get rid of the pesky neighbour who has just moved up from Texas. Both demeanours mix like oil and water but the two eventually become friends and allies against their unfaithful husbands.

A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking centers on Maude Mix, a straight laced and uptight New York housewife living in an upscale suburban neighbourhood. Her husband is off on a periodic extramarital jaunt with his secretary and her perfectly super-programmed day is thrown into comical chaos by new neighbour Hannah Mae Bindler, a raucous and free-spirited transplant from Texas. Hannah Mae's insistence that the two become friends because "my back door faces your back door" seems absurd given their vast differences – but they nevertheless find themselves learning from each other as their bond is forged over coffee and the two eventually join forces against their errant and erring husbands. John Ford Noonan's lively comedy about friendship demonstrates that fulfillment can come from the most unlikely people and places.

A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking premiered in 1980 at the at the Astor Place Theatre in the NoHo section of Manhattan. This Off-Broadway hit originally starred Susan Sarandon and Eileen Brennan and ran for more than a year. Works for two actresses were in short supply at the time, and the play was soon being performed all over the United States, its humour striking a universal chord. Since then it has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and a staple of small and regional theatres, partly because it is such a good acting vehicle for women from twenty to fifty.

Cast: 2 female

What people say:

"Mr. Noonan is quite a skillful jokesmith. He has a fine ear for language, a knack for the throwaway line and a sense of timing that is pretty much faultless." — New York Times

"Dandy."New York Daily News

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A lighter than air comedy." — Time Magazine

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A lollapalooza of a comedy ….a comic antidote for the blues." — The Hollywood Reporter

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A couple of white chicks do more than just talk in John Ford Noonan's A Couple White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, – but talking is one of the funniest things they do in this comedy with a lot of heart." — The Enterprise (Cape Cod)

About the Playwright:

John Ford Noonan (1941-2018) was an American actor and prolific writer for theatre, film and television. Best known for his breakout play, A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, he wrote for TV's Comedy Zone and St. Elsewhere, for which he won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in 1984. As an actor, he was seen in Adventures in Babysitting, Flirting With Disaster, and My Divorce.

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