represented by East West Gallery,
from the Fivefold Theatre Co production at the Pentameters Theatre, London
70 Scenes of Halloween
Description
A quirky, inventive, and fun play in which time is out of joint as married couple Jeff and Joan contend with ghosts, beasts, and witches banging on their windows, wafting through their rooms, and wielding butcher knives.
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Press Quotes
“… The play is almost a cartoon, a succession of brief scenes — some Stan Mack-realistic, some perfectly absurd — separated by blackouts. A young, hip suburban couple sits at home on Halloween watching TV, greeting trick-or-treaters, drinking, quarreling, and so on, while two all-purpose alter-egos known as ‘the Witch’ and ‘the Beast’ make strange appearances … the play makes for a funny and theatrical evening; it has the something’s-creepy-in-suburbia air of Sam Shepard’s BURIED CHILD, and the quick takes and precisely overheard dialogue of David Mamet’s SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO …” —Don Shewey, Soho News
“… an intriguing new play by Jeffrey M Jones that is a semi-random compilation of episodes … It is a wonderfully inventive play, very comic and almost silly In its theatricality, but it is also an intensely anguished play about a marriage that is dying of familiarity. This is an autobiographical piece, so terribly personal that it makes the heart ache with sympathy. Jones is writing about his own failed marriage, blending realism with psychological fantasy and a bit of grisly horror …” —David Hawley, Saint Paul Dispatch
Author
Jeffrey M JonesJeffrey M Jones is the author of 70 SCENES OF HALLOWEEN, NIGHTCOIL, and A MAN'S BEST FRIEND; a series of collage plays: DER INKA VON PERU, TOMORROWLAND, and WIPEOUT; a series of "Crazy Plays": STONE MONKEY BANISHED (an adaptation of Monkey for Ralph Lee), 12 BROTHERS (an adaptation of the Grimm Brothers' tale, with Camila Jones); and two musicals: WRITE IF YOU GET WORK (score: Dan Moses Schreier) and J.P. MORGAN SAVES THE NATION (score: Jonathan Larson). His plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, Inc., and Sun & Moon Press. Mr. Jones also is co-curator of the Obie-winning Little Theatre series, and holds an annual Pataphysics workshop at the Flea.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 7/1/2005 |
| Pages | 80 |
| ISBN | 9780881452730 |
Special Notes
Originally produced by Creation Production Company, New York
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com
