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Laestrygonians

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 3m

Don Nigro

Silent film starlet Mary Margaret is alone in her Hollywood bungalow,
about to kill herself. John Rose, a former Shakespearean stage actor,
now a drunken silent movie leading man with a bad reputation, calls on
her and tries to convince her to face life. Funny and rich in character and language, this powerful and unusual love story is central to the Pendragon series of plays.

Laestrygonians

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Suggested Use
    • Monologues
    • Scene work
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
Silent film starlet Mary Margaret is alone in her Hollywood bungalow, about to kill herself. John Rose, a former Shakespearean stage actor, now a drunken silent movie leading man with a bad reputation, calls on her and tries to convince her to face life. In the course of their hilarious conflict, images of the actor's past emerge. His efforts to help Mary Margaret live force him to deal with his own demons and find a way to cope with the terrible secret that eats away at him like the cannibal Laestrygonians in Homer's Odyssey. Funny and rich in character and language, this powerful and unusual love story is central to the Pendragon series of plays.
History
Laestrygonians was first produced by The Actors Co-op in Knoxville, Tennessee in the autumn of 2000. It was directed by Brian Prather.
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Performing Groups
JESSICA ARTMITAGE
JOHN ROSE
MARY MARGARET DUNCAN
ANDREW MCDUFFY
MARINA MCDUFFY
JAMES MAHONEY
  • Time Period 1920s, 1910s / WWI
  • Features Period Costumes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Intense Adult Themes

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

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Don Nigro

Don Nigro

Don Nigro is among the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in the world and has continued to build a deeply interrelated and diverse body of dramatic literature, employing a wide variety of dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He has written ...

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