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The Reluctant Rogue (or Mother's Day)
The Reluctant Rogue (or Mother's Day)
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Author: John Patrick Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 58 Pub. Date: 1984 ISBN-10: 082220942X ISBN-13: 9780822209423 Cast Size: 5 female, 2 male, 1 boy
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About
the Play:
The Reluctant Rogue (or Mother's Day) is a full-length
comedy by John Patrick. A very funny and fast-moving play by
one of the theatre's masters of comedy. Here the action centres on a
"morally challenged" young college professor with multiple
student-girlfriends – until he finds himself entrapped in the
tangled web of fibs and false promises which his ardour had led him
into.
The Reluctant Rogue follows Reed Dolan who would seem to be
living in the best of all possible worlds: he is young, attractive
and a professor of drama at a small college teeming with pretty coeds
anxious for good grades. Reed specializes in inviting his
better-looking female students to his apartment to discuss their term
papers, after which, if all goes well, the next step is a weekend at
his hideaway on nearby Lake Hocapocapoo. The problem is that his
amorous exploits are too successful as, much to his consternation,
not one but three lovesick coeds descend on him in succession one
afternoon – with Reed then struggling hilariously to keep each from
discovering the presence of the others. And in (a) the unexpected
arrival of an irate father who intends to shoot his daughter's
seducer, and (b) the sudden reappearance of a former student who
brings along her young son, claiming that Reed is the father, and the
stage is set for the wildly funny finale – with Reed's desperately
devious (and hilarious) alibis growing ever more outrageous as he
attempts to side-step what, for a less resourceful liar, would be
pure and inescapable disaster.
The Reluctant Rogue has
been performed in
regional, college, and community theatre productions.
Cast: 5 female, 2 male, 1 boy
About the Playwright:
John Patrick (1905-1995) was an American playwright and
screenwriter. 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 the two plays mentioned above. His plays remain popular with
community theatres.
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