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Love's Tangled Web

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 3m

"Ridiculous" - Style. Love and intrigue on Long Island's fashionable North Shore, full of the author's characteristically strange people and social observations.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

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Summary
Love and intrigue on Long Island's fashionable North Shore, full of the author's characteristically strange people and social observations. Among the players are a snarky, crippled heiress, who employs her own mother and brother as her maid and butler; a philandering clergyman, who is also the cruel despot of a local boys' orphanage, and the voodoo-practicing attractive daughter of a clam digger. The plot offers such farcical staples as romantic rivalries, mistaken identities, purloined letters and financial extortion, but, to be sure, Mr. Ludlam has added some other twists that are purely his own.
History
Love's Tangled Web was first presented by The Ridiculous Theatrical Company in New York City. 

SYLVIA WOODVILLE

EVE, her mother

PASTOR FENWICK BATES, her mother's lover, soon to be her stepfather

ETHELBERT (BERTIE), her brother

RAEANNE AVERY, the girl next door, a paranormal

BRAM, a handyman and gardner

GORILLA

  • Time Period Present Day
  • Setting Long Island's fashionable North Shore.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

"Ridiculous" - Style

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $120 per performance

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Authors

Charles Ludlam

Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) grew up in Queens, New York, just a few subway stops from Greenwich Village, and the heart of Gay America. At 24, he founded the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, where he wrote, directed and performed in almost every production for the next two decade ...
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