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The Third Story
The Third Story
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Author: Charles Busch Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 96 Pub. Date: 2009 ISBN-10: 0573697302 ISBN-13: 9780573697302 Cast Size: 2 women, 4 men
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About
the Play:
The
Third Story is a full-length comedy by Charles Busch.
Gangster flicks, fairy tales and B-movie sci-fi collide in this epic
comic fable from the sick and silly imagination of Charles Busch, the
genius campmeister who has been called "a first-class
satirist and farceur" (The New Yorker).
The
Third Story is an uplifting and very funny play that is composed
of three interconnected stories. A faded screenwriter in the 1940's
woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screen play.
The gangster/sci fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us,
involving a way-too-well-dressed first lady of the mob, a beautiful
but icy lady scientist and her failed and understandably bitter human
cloning experiment. A third story is the Russian fairy tale the
screenwriter told her son as a child about a romantically-inclined
but socially-inept princess who makes a diabolical pact with a
terrifying but surprisingly vulnerable old witch. The fairy tale
inspires the movie which inspires the mother and son screenwriters to
mend their fractured relationship.
The
Third Story premiered in 2008 at the La Jolla Playhouse in La
Jolla, California and was then produced in New York by MCC Theatre at
the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2009.
Cast:
2 women, 4 men
What
people say:
"Ingenious!
Laugh-packed! The Third Story proves a treat and
throbs with heart as well." — Hartford Courant
"Plays-within-plays
require such intricate tailoring. So it's a pleasure to report that
with The Third Story, the ever-captivating
Charles Busch proves equally deft as both performer and seamstress."
— Theatermania
"The
main joy of The Third Story is that its foolery
embodies something substantive...No wonder The Third Story feels like
such an energizing event." — Village Voice
About
the Playwright:
Charles
Busch is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female
impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp
style plays and in film and television. He is the author of the
award-winning Broadway play The Tale of the Allergist's Wife,
and Our Leading Lady. He starred in such plays as The Lady
in Question, Red Scare on Sunset, and Vampire Lesbians
of Sodom, which ran for five years Off-Broadway. In 2003, Busch
received a special Drama Desk award for career achievement as both a
performer and a playwright.
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