About the Play:

Turn Back the Clock is a full-length comedy by Marrijane Hayes and Joseph Hayes. A gleeful glimpse into those not-so-dead days in which parents and children behaved in almost exactly the same way that they behave today.

Turn Back the Clock is built around the universal truth that all generations are more or less alike after all. In a very brief prologue, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hill are waiting up for their children, worried and concerned. Mr. Hill, a bank president and trustee of his church, is growing angry and harping on the so called "irresponsibilities" of his own youthful ambitions and foibles, and the clock is turned back. We meet Mr. and Mrs. Hill as high school seniors in 1928 and get a gleeful glimpse into those not so dead days in which parents and children behaved in almost exactly the same way as they behave today. It's all laughter, heart warming tenderness and surprises.

Turn Back the Clock is recommended for school use.

Cast: 8 female, 6 male

About the Playwright:

Marrijane Hayes (1920-1991) often collaborated with her husband, Joseph Hayes, on a number of screenplays and scripts.

Joseph Hayes (1918-2006) was a well-known American author, playwright and screenwriter specializing in crime fiction. His best known work, The Desperate Hours was first a suspense novel about a suburban family taken hostage at home by three escaped convicts; then a successful Broadway play (taking the 1955 Tony for Best Play) starring a young Paul Newman; and then a movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March. Hayes had a long career on Broadway and in the movies; he often collaborated with his wife, Marrijane Hayes, on a number of screenplays and scripts.