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Opal's Baby

Opal's Baby
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: John Patrick
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 57
Pub. Date: 1974
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 082220858X
ISBN-13: 9780822208587
Cast Size: 4 female, 2 male

About the Play:

Opal's Baby is a full-length comedy by John Patrick. Part of this author's ever popular "Opal" series about the lovable and irrepressible Opal Kronkie – a colourful, naive middle-aged woman with a bit of a hoarding problem. This cheerful, wealthy recluse is besieged by the infamous Nubbs Family, a backwoods group of ne'er-do-wells and con artists, out to swindle her out of her life savings.

Opal's Baby revolves around the Opal Kronkie, the zany and lovable heroine who lives in a tumbled-down home at the edge of the city dump, and is a collector of trash, treasures and people. She has a visitor looking for a tire to fit his 1927 Reo truck. Misguided into thinking that Opal is a rich eccentric, the shifty visitor, Norman Nubbs, announces (fallaciously) that he too is a Kronkie – and Opal's long-lost kin. The upshot is that the warmhearted Opal takes him, and his whole family, in – whereupon they scheme to do her out of her supposed fortune. When Norman confides that his daughter-in-law, Verna, is pregnant (abetted by a well-placed pillow), Opal decides to leave all her worldly goods to the "baby," and the others have to settle for petty thievery while they figure out how to get around their lie. Needless to say the "plot thickens" hilariously as they do so, but happily all ends well, at least for Opal, who emerges safe, sound and ready for whatever may come next.

Opal's Baby premiered in 1973 at the renowned Flat Rock Playhouse (the State Theatre of North Carolina) and has been delighting audiences ever since. An entertaining and fanciful comedy, and one of the most successful plays for regional, high school, and community theatres.

Cast: 4 female, 2 male

About the Playwright:

John Patrick (1905-1995) was a prolific American playwright and screenwriter, writing more than a dozen screenplays and some 30 plays. He had several Broadway successes, most notably Teahouse of the August Moon (which was awarded a Pulitzer, a Tony and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award) and The Hasty Heart. His movie scripts are impressive with Three Coins in a Fountain, The Shoes of the Fisherman and The World of Suzie Wong as well as adaptations of the two plays mentioned above. His plays remain popular with high schools and community theatres.

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