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Opal's Husband
Opal's Husband
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Author: John Patrick Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 60 Pub. Date: 1975 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822208598 ISBN-13: 9780822208594 Cast Size: Cast: 3 female, 2 male
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About
the Play:
Opal's Husband 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
time, our zany and lovable heroine is surprised to find a lonely
stranger at her door one day, and she is determined to set him up
with her best friend, Rosie.
Opal's Husband 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. Bent as usual on a good deed, busybody
matchmaker Opal trying
to lasso a husband for her woebegotten
best friend Rosie answers a lonely hearts ad placed
by a certain "Mister
Handsome" – who, when he shows up, proves to be a
ninety-five-year-old escapee from a nursing home. As expected,
complications ensue when Rosie rejects her would-be suitor. Trying
to keep the old man from the clutches of his scheming daughter and
son-in-law, Opal agrees to marry him. But Mister Handsome, who is
secretly wealthy, would prefer to spend his last days (and his
fortune) with a beautiful maiden on a South Pacific island while
his daughter wants him to expire quickly, and quietly, in the old
folk's home. Thereafter the plots and counter-plots multiply
hilariously as the daughter and her husband try to discredit the
marriage (and convince Opal that she is cuckoo), while the old man
devises his own plan to catch them in their dirty work. Happily he
succeeds, and off he goes to his fond reward, leaving Opal with both
an annulment and another delightful lesson in life to pass on to her
myriad admirers.
Opal's Husband premiered in 1975 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: 3 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 "Opal"
series of plays remain popular with high schools and
community theatres.
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