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The Family of Mann
The Family of Mann
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Author: Theresa Rebeck Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 118 Pub. Date: 1995 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0573695709 ISBN-13: 9780573695704 Cast Size: 3 female, 4 male
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About
the Play:
The Family of Mann has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues, Male Monologues, and Female/Male Scenes.
The Family of Mann is a full-length comedy by Theresa
Rebeck. This biting comedy takes a behind-the-scenes look at the
writing of a television sitcom as a young woman gets the job as a
co-writer amidst a sea of hungry men eager to rip her to shreds. Not
surprisingly, her television world soon descends into a ferocious
madness.
The Family of Mann is about off-camera backstabbing on a TV
series. "It's a Mann's world" is a fact that Belinda
quickly realizes when she scores her dream job as the writer of an
upcoming sitcom starring Hollywood royalty. But once the pressures of
working in an ego-driven, testosterone-filled writers' room sets in,
reality shifts, and the truth behind the "City of Angels"
begins to reveal itself to her. Or … it could be that she's just
losing her mind. The Family of Mann hilariously questions who
and what are invited into homes when the television is turned on.
The Family of Mann premiered in 1994 by Second Stage
Theatre at McGinn-Cazale Theatre off Broadway in New York City. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has been performed in regional repertory and college theatre productions.
Cast: 3 female, 4 male
What people say:
"Taking a behind the scenes
look at the making of a TV sitcom, playwright Theresa
Rebeck doesn't adopt the Neil Simon approach. Attila the
Hun is more like it. When she's funny, she's savagely funny. When
she's serious, she draws blood." — New York Newsday
"The Family of Mann,
Theresa Rebeck's ... comedy ... satirizes the
morals and manners of the people who manufacture television situation
comedies. Ms. Rebeck speaks with the authority of the observant
outsider that has been on the inside. She's also unusual among
today's comedy writers in that she can come up with very funny lines
that erupt naturally from the situations." — New
York Times
"The smartest, the smoothest,
the best written, most provocative play to be presented in New York
in a long time. The Family of Mann takes off on
California show business in a way that permanently outdates movieland
satires ... Everything rings fiercely, funnily, savagely true...
Simply first class." — New York Magazine
"The only play of lasting
value on Broadway." — Time Magazine
About the Playwright:
Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, director, television
writer, and novelist. She is the most Broadway-produced female
playwright of our time. Her plays include Bad Dates, Omnium
Gatherum (co-written, Pulitzer finalist), Spike Heels, and
Mauritius, which won Boston's prestigious IRNE and Elliot
Norton Awards. Her work in television includes NYPD Blue for which
she has won the Peabody, the Writer's Guild, and the Mystery Writers
of America's Edgar awards.
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