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Lemonade

One Act, Comedy/Drama
2 women
Total Cast: 2, Open Stage
ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-0081-9

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MIN. PERFORMANCE FEE: $55 per performance.

THE STORY: As outlined in Show Business: “LEMONADE features Jan Miner and Nancy Coleman as a pair of Peoria matrons who seek respite from the doldrums of middle age by selling spiked lemonade to highway travelers. The dialogue is hilarious as the two trade drinks and the fantasies they have concocted to brighten their dull lives. But the two strong performances really emerge when we find there is no sale. Miss Miner’s Mabel has not raised a crippled son; Miss Coleman’s Edith has not seen her children burn to death. Their lemonade grows tepid; their fantasies lose lustre. Prideaux’s theme is the desperation with which we seek to evade the mundane, the illusions small people live by, and the emptiness which can exist beneath the veneer of supposed well-being."

This perceptive and funny study of two frustrated and lonely middle-class matrons.

“The dialogue is bright, witty and to the point an evening of dark humor.” —WABC-TV.

“Prideaux’s plays are light as a souffle, his lines sparkle like prisms and his wit is derived from sharp observations of oh, grateful surprise normal people.” —Long Island Press.

Included in the collection Lemonade and The Autograph Hound.

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