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The Family of Mann

The Family of Mann
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
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

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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