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The Harvesting
The Harvesting
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Author: John Bishop Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 73 Pub. Date: 1984 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822204991 ISBN-13: 9780822204992 Cast Size: 4 female, 7 male
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About
the Play:
The Harvesting has long been a favourite of acting teachers
for Female Monologues and Female/Male Scenes.
The Harvesting is a full-length drama by John Bishop.
Set in a small Midwestern city, The Harvesting is a
spellbinding, gripping detective whodunit that uses the investigation
of a shocking double murder as a means to probe into the damaging
truths heretofore hidden in the lives of some of the leading
citizens.
The Harvesting is set in a once-idyllic, now-corrupted
neighbourhood in the Middle American town of Mansfield, Ohio, the time 1976 – during the
Independence Day weekend. As the play begins, a police radio reports
the murders of the ex-wife of a leading citizen and her lover who
have been gunned down with uncommon brutality and expertise. A team
headed by chief detective John Torski immediately swings into action.
He was in love with the slain divorcee during their high school days
but she married another classmate, the violent Bim Miller, who has
become a ruthless local businessman. Suspicion, at first, centres on
the victim's ex-husband, Miller, a former friend of Torski's –
until he too is murdered. Thereafter, the fascinating trail of clues
leads, step by step, through a series of revealing interrogations
which, in the end, piece together a chilling tale of hidden crime,
festering guilt, alienation and eventual retribution – violently
exacted by a tortured, long-lost son who has never forgiven – or
forgotten – the sins of his unloving parents.
The Harvesting premiered in 1984 at Sheridan Square
Playhouse by the famed Circle Repertory Company off-Broadway in New
York City.
Cast: 4 female, 7 male
What people say:
"The Harvesting is
the stage equivalent of a book you can't put down: I couldn't take my
eyes off the stage… a tense, spine-tingling play." —
Gannett Newspapers
"…a taut example of
theatrical detective fiction, with a requisite number of plot twists,
surprises, and climaxes." — The Christian Science
Monitor
"…fast-moving and steadily
entertaining thriller…." — New York Daily News
"…tense and meaningful… As
the drama unfolds it becomes more and more engrossing…." —
New York Post
About the Playwright:
John Bishop (1929-2006) was an American playwright and
screenwriter. When Marshall W. Mason, founder of the acclaimed
Off-Broadway Circle Repertory Company, saw a performance of The
Trip Back Down, he invited John Bishop to become a member
as both a writer and director. Circle Rep would become his artistic
home for nearly 20 years, producing many of his plays. He later
founded the Circle West theater company in Los Angeles. He also used
his knowledge of and interest in male behaviour and police procedures
to do rewrites on the big-budget thrillers Sliver, Primal Fear, Clear
and Present Danger, and Beverly Hills Cop III.
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