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Delightful Quarantine, A

Mark Dunn

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Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy

5m, 10f, 2girl(s)

ISBN: 9780573650673

"Sharp and witty, warm and very, very funny." –Williamsport Sun-Gazette

What would it be like to be confined with people you don't really know? Strange visitors leave behind a deadly disease that leaves seven separate households unexpectedly quarantined. Tells interwovven stories through a large ensemble cast.

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Description

Full Length Play

Dramatic Comedy

120 minutes (2 hours)

Time Period - Contemporary, Present Day

Settings Of Play - The play is set in the present in the Susqua Creek Acres neighborhood of the town of Willspier, Pennsylvania. The composite set suggests seven different houses within that neighborhood. A downstage lectern represents, as well, the college classroom of Professor Lucy Fuller.

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Physical Comedy

Interior Set, Bare Stage/Simple Set

Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes

CAUTIONS

No Special Cautions

THEMES

Death, Friendship, Illness/Health, Love, Marriage, Parenting/Family

TARGET AUDIENCE

Appropriate for all audiences

PERFORMANCE GROUP

High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Dinner Theatre, Professional Theatre

An extra-terrestrial "invasion" of the suburban, middle-class community of Susqua Creek Acres, Pennsylvania places its human residents and visitors under sudden house-bound quarantine. Secrets get revealed, conflicts erupt and recede, long festering wounds are dressed, and friendships and relationships terminated or reinstated.

Offering the rare opportunity for large ensemble casting, A Delightful Quarantine presents audiences with the interwoven stories of a mother reunited with the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-two years earlier; a man with a secret that upends his marriage; a woman with fourteen cats, all invisible; a foiled house burglary that must wait three days for the police; a rekindled high school romance; two young couture-obsessed little girls "home alone" for the duration; and a brother who cannot honor his sick sister's greatest wish.

"Sharp and witty, warm and very, very funny." –Williamsport Sun-Gazette
A Delightful Quarantine was commissioned by the Community Theatre League in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, as part of the author's long association with this theatre through his playwright's residency there. It premiered on November 3, 2006. It was directed by Tom Ryersbach.
Characters

CASTING

5m, 10f, 2girl(s)

CASTING ATTRIBUTES

Ensemble cast, Color blind casting, Drag performance, Features Children, Roles for Children, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

CASTING NOTES

A Delightful Quarantine was written as a large ensemble piece. It also offers fun roles for two youthful actresses (who can play eleven years of age) and a star-turn, of sorts, via the role of the story's professorial narrator.

PROFESSOR LUCY FULLER, the narrator

House “A”
BARBARA MIDDLEBROOK - age 50
PAULA MIDDLEBROOK-CLOBB - her daughter, age 32
KITTY CIVETTE - Paula’s twin sister age 32

House “B”
JUDEEN DEMPSEY - age 48
CHESTER BANDERHORN - age 49

House “C”
BETHANY ROBBINS - age 38
CLARK WIGGLIN - age 38

House “D”
SHIRLEY WIGGLIN - age 38
ROY ROBBINS - age 38

House “E”
DIANDRA ROBBINS - age 11
JENNIFER WIGGLIN - age 11

House “F”
SUE STADLER - age 28
DEAN STADLER - age 26

House “G”
VIOLET BASSEY - age 70
MAVIS JEMCO - age 71
TUG GOFF - age 20

THE HAZ MAT SQUAD -all hooded and anonymous

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MUSICAL STYLE

N/A (Not a musical)

Author
Mark Dunn

Mark Dunn

Mark Dunn is the author of over thirty full-length plays, ten published and licensed by Samuel French (in addition to two one-acts). He is also the author of several books, including the award-winning novel Ella Minnow Pea, along with Under the Harrow, and his forthcoming 100-story masterwork American Decameron. Mr. Dunn has spent his long playwriting career writing plays appropriate for the high ... view full profile

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