Subject to Change

Subject to Change

Subject to Change

Subject to Change

Overview

First produced at the Pheasant Run Playhouse in Chicago, with Phyllis Diller featured as Madeline Basset. The action takes place in a two story residence in suburban New York. The play concerns the two Bassett sisters. Gertrude is prudish, capable and hardworking, and says only “Oh, fudge,” when she’s upset. Madeline is completely dependent on her. Madeline is sloppy, fat, cunning, and sounds like a plumber who has lost his number four wrench. When Gertrude decides to marry, leaving Madeline to fend for herself, the situation becomes traumatic. In an attempt to break up Gertrude’s romance, Madeline runs the gamut, making obscene telephone calls to the bridegroom’s 80 year old lush of a mother, outrageously insulting the groom to be, sneaking off to New York to trip on LSD, and finally sneaking back home to live in the attic and sulk. When all efforts fail, she feigns a stroke.

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Cautions

  • Caution Drugs Drugs
  • Caution Intense Adult Intense Adult Themes

Authors

Jules Tasca

Through I.U.P., Jules Tasca has taught playwrighting at Oxford University in England and he has performed with a commedia dell’arte group in Central Italy. He is the author of over 125 (full-length and one-act) published plays that have been produced in numerous national thea ...

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