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Opal's Husband

Opal's Husband
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
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

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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