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BOOKENDS |
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HOW TO ORDER A READING COPY OF BOOKENDS |
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Send me an email with the following information. Please provide ALL information requested below. 1. Your full name and your organization (theater company, school or other group). If you are a high school or college student, please include your teacher/professor's name. 2. A snail mail address and phone number for your organization. 3. When and where the production would be, and the number of performances. 4. Will admission be charged? 5. When do you expect to make a decision about using my play? 6. Can you receive attachments as PDF files? (The reader is a free download--link below.) If you can't, I can mail you a copy of the play. There will be a small fee assessed to cover postage and copying. 7. Please tell me how you found me and my work (I'm listed on certain websites, and it's always good to know, for both them and me, whether they're effective). 8. A statement that you understand that production of my work requires the payment of a royalty. See the note about royalties on the Plays for Production page. |
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SYNOPSIS |
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ERIC, a college freshman, has been having an affair with SUSAN, his Shakespeare professor. He goes to the library to obtain Cliffs Notes for the paper for which she refuses to give him an extension. JANE, an ex-librarian, takes him hostage and threatens to blow up the library. As the POLICE CAPTAIN outside becomes increasingly and absurdly callous and eventually sets the library on fire with Eric and Jane inside, Eric must confront his own fears and self-doubt as he relives his affair with Susan and deals with the situation inside the library.
Jane threatens Eric with dynamite (L), and up close and personal with the Police Captain (R). From the City Theater Company (Wilmington) production. |
| CAST OF CHARACTERS |
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JANE, a middle-aged ex-librarian
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| A PAGE OUT OF BOOKENDS |
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Eric and Susan in bed (L) and the "kill the carrier" game in the Cayuga production. (R) |
The Police Captain gets ready for a game of "kill the carrier" (L), while Eric breaks down in the Cayuga County Community College production (R).
