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My Cup Ranneth Over
My Cup Ranneth Over
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Author: Robert Patrick Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 25 Pub. Date: 1979 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822207982 ISBN-13: 9780822207986 Cast Size: 2 female
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About
the Play:
My
Cup Ranneth Over has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female/Female Scenes.
My
Cup Ranneth Over is a one-act comedy by Robert Patrick.
Widely produced, including a presentation by New York's Circle
Repertory Company, and also selected for inclusion in the "Best
Short Plays" series, My Cup Ranneth Over is a perceptive,
ironic and very funny short play dealing with the suddenly
complicated relationship that develops between two roommates when
rock-singer Yucca (while hardly trying) is catapulted to success,
while would-be writer Paula (who has been trying very hard) remains
unnoticed. Will these artistic roomies survive this overnight
success?
My
Cup Ranneth Over tells the story of two women who are "best
friends" who exist in such close proximity that they struggle to
maintain their own sense of individuality. Struggling to succeed as a
writer, despite little to show for her efforts but rejection slips,
Paula ignores the ringing phone, as she has disciplined herself not
to interrupt her work before lunch. Instead her still sleeping
roommate, Yucca, a happy-go-lucky rock singer, is roused to answer it
– and, as it happens, the call is for her, anyway. So are the many
others which follow insistently thereafter, plus the TV crew waiting
downstairs, and all because Yucca, who filled in for an ailing
performer the night before, has suddenly been "discovered."
She couldn't care less, but Paula, while trying to control her
anguish, cares a great deal – with results that are funny, ironic,
very human and consistently entertaining.
My
Cup Ranneth Over premiered in 1977 at the Everyman Company in Brooklyn, New
York and had its professional premiere in 1978 at the Oregon
Repertory Theatre in Eugene, Oregon. The
perceptive and ironically humorous play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has been very widely
performed in regional, high school, and college theatre productions.
Cast:
2 female
What
people say:
"…a
delightful one-act examination of poetic injustice." — New
York Daily News
"Nothing
could be simpler than the situation, and nothing could be cleverer
than the way Patrick keeps it moving, with an unending flow of
reversals and laugh lines, all seeming to tumble quite by accident
out of the characters and the event." — Village
Voice
About
the Playwright:
Robert
Patrick (1937-2023 ) was born Robert Patrick O'Connor. He was an American playwright and performer who was heavily
involved in works at the groundbreaking Caffe Cino in Greenwich
Village until it closed in 1968. He went on to have plays produced at
the Old Reliable, La MaMa E.T.C., and other off-off-Broadway
theatres, earning him the title of New York's most performed
playwright of the 1960s. His remarkable play Kennedy's Children
captured brilliantly the mood and essence of that great decade, went
on to be widely produced, translated into 60 languages, and
eventually made its way to Broadway.
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