Laughing Stock (Morey) Charles Morey

Comedy
Full Length

9 men, 5 women: 14 total
Flexible Set

"…a summer stock production of Dracula disintegrates into chaos on opening night. Gothic horror becomes high comedy amid misplaced technical cues, forgotten lines, wrong entrances and eccentric acting…the large audience howled with glee as they watched the mayhem unfold…" —Salt Lake Tribune. "LAUGHING STOCK soars as farce…" —Salt Lake City Weekly. "The delightful thing…is that Morey strikes a balance between a depiction of everything that can and usually does go wrong…and a genuinely affectionate look at the magic that holds theatre companies together…these are all type characters but Morey adeptly deepens and individualizes each one…The Dracula section and a rehearsal of Charley's Aunt where the actors improvise being animals at dusk around an African water hole are comic high point…" —Event (Salt Lake City). "LAUGHING STOCK will indeed have you laughing in your seat if not rolling in the aisles…It's hard to imagine anyone whose funny bone wouldn't be tickled by this one…it's a hoot…it's a blast…" —Monadnock Ledger (NH). "Scene after scene, beat after beat, LAUGHING STOCK piles on the laughs…every single piece crackles with successful wit and abundant humor…virtuoso farce…" —Keene Sentinel (NH). "I cried, I choked, I fell into a coughing fit, I cried some more…can't help but love this play." —Nashua Telegraph (NH).

Book/Item: LAUGHING STOCK (MOREY)
Book Type: DPS
Price: $8.00
ISBN/Code: 978-0-8222-2073-2

FEE: $75 per performance. SPECIAL NOTE: A CD with cue sheet containing the original music composed by James Prigmore for this play is available through the Play Service for $35.00, plus shipping and handling. The nonprofessional fee for the use of this music is $15.00 per performance.

THE STORY: LAUGHING STOCK is a hilarious backstage farce and genuinely affectionate look into the world of the theatre. When The Playhouse, a rustic New England summer theatre, schedules a repertory season of Dracula, Hamlet and Charley's Aunt, comic mayhem ensues. We follow the well-intentioned but over-matched company from outrageous auditions to ego-driven rehearsals through opening nights gone disastrously awry to the elation of a great play well told and the comic and nostalgic season close.

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