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The Long Goodbye

Short Play, Drama  /  2w, 7m

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 7m
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

Joe, a frustrated writer, is moving out of the apartment he has lived in his entire life. Haunted by the ghost of his dead mother and an apparition of his lost sister, he drifts through the events of his past.

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

History

The Long Goodbye premiered at the Straight Wharf Theatre in Nantucket, MA in 1946.

JOE
MYRA
MOTHER
SILVA
BILL
FOUR MOVERS
  • Duration 30 minutes

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