DPS Now Released
Dramatists Play Service is pleased to announce the publication of:
THE GAMESTER by Freyda Thomas6 men, 5 women“A specialist in applying new spit and polish to Molière classics, Freyda Thomas turns to his comparatively obscure junior contemporary Jean-François Regnard in THE GAMESTER, based on the latter’s 1696 Le Joueur. Less an adaptation than a new commedia inspired by the original work’s basic plot outline, this sparkling farce about a compulsive gambler has no trouble bridging a 310-year gap in audience tastes. And Ron Lagomarsino’s American Conservatory Theater staging reps one of that entity’s more purely enjoyable productions in some time.” —Variety. “The dice are cast. The wheel spins until the final curtain falls. The actors play the cards they’re dealt. If all theater is to some extent a gamble, the American Conservatory Theater has drawn a winner with Freyda Thomas’ clever reshuffling of an old deck in THE GAMESTER, which opened to great waves of laughter Wednesday at the Geary Theater…It isn’t all luck, of course. Thomas has crafted her comedy skillfully upon the fairly solid frame of a little-known seventeenth-century French farce.” —San Francisco Chronicle.
THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN OF JENNY CHOW by Rolin Jones.3M, 3W (doubling)Winner of a 2006 Obie Award. “Fantastical and funny…a heartbreaking study of a wounded and abandoned bird who finds refuge, strength and empowerment through her cyber-connections with the outside world…captures the speed, strain and surreality of a serious mental illness…reveals a lost child in a techno-world who is cracking up under the parental pressure of being the perfect girl.” —Variety. “…Bright and engaging…boldly imagined…Mr. Jones unfolds his tale of pioneering science fueled by post-adolescent angst with pleasing agility.” —NY Times. “A fresh, loopy and ultimately crushing play that tickles us under the chin and in the ribs, only to rip out our vulnerable hearts…explodes with vitality and charm…blessed with Jones’ uncanny ear for spoken dialogue, the characters leap off the stage as if propelled by rocket fuel.” —New Haven Register. “Fantasy interweaves with a hard, gritty reality.” —Connecticut Post. “Harvests many laughs and finally a few tears.” —LA Times. “Explosively energetic and touching…original wide-awake script…[a] hilarious evening.” —San Diego Union-Tribune.
THE GAMESTER by Freyda Thomas6 men, 5 women“A specialist in applying new spit and polish to Molière classics, Freyda Thomas turns to his comparatively obscure junior contemporary Jean-François Regnard in THE GAMESTER, based on the latter’s 1696 Le Joueur. Less an adaptation than a new commedia inspired by the original work’s basic plot outline, this sparkling farce about a compulsive gambler has no trouble bridging a 310-year gap in audience tastes. And Ron Lagomarsino’s American Conservatory Theater staging reps one of that entity’s more purely enjoyable productions in some time.” —Variety. “The dice are cast. The wheel spins until the final curtain falls. The actors play the cards they’re dealt. If all theater is to some extent a gamble, the American Conservatory Theater has drawn a winner with Freyda Thomas’ clever reshuffling of an old deck in THE GAMESTER, which opened to great waves of laughter Wednesday at the Geary Theater…It isn’t all luck, of course. Thomas has crafted her comedy skillfully upon the fairly solid frame of a little-known seventeenth-century French farce.” —San Francisco Chronicle.
THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN OF JENNY CHOW by Rolin Jones.3M, 3W (doubling)Winner of a 2006 Obie Award. “Fantastical and funny…a heartbreaking study of a wounded and abandoned bird who finds refuge, strength and empowerment through her cyber-connections with the outside world…captures the speed, strain and surreality of a serious mental illness…reveals a lost child in a techno-world who is cracking up under the parental pressure of being the perfect girl.” —Variety. “…Bright and engaging…boldly imagined…Mr. Jones unfolds his tale of pioneering science fueled by post-adolescent angst with pleasing agility.” —NY Times. “A fresh, loopy and ultimately crushing play that tickles us under the chin and in the ribs, only to rip out our vulnerable hearts…explodes with vitality and charm…blessed with Jones’ uncanny ear for spoken dialogue, the characters leap off the stage as if propelled by rocket fuel.” —New Haven Register. “Fantasy interweaves with a hard, gritty reality.” —Connecticut Post. “Harvests many laughs and finally a few tears.” —LA Times. “Explosively energetic and touching…original wide-awake script…[a] hilarious evening.” —San Diego Union-Tribune.
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