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A Delightful Quarantine

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  10w, 5m, 2girl(s)

"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.

A Delightful Quarantine

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    10w, 5m, 2girl(s)
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Not Applicable
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences

Details

Summary

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.

History
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.

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

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.

  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Physical Comedy, Drag Performance
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

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

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Mark Dunn

Mark Dunn is a playwright, novelist and non-fiction author. A 35-year veteran of writing for the stage, Mark is the author of 15 full-length plays now available for licensing through Concord Theatricals. His most popular plays – Belles, Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain, Belle ...

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