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Grace & Glorie

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  2w

"A sentimental odd couple crowd pleaser...[with] a steady drip of easy laughs." - The New Tork Times

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary
Estelle Parsons and Lucie Arnaz starred on Broadway in this charmer set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Grace, a feisty 90 year-old cancer patient, has checked herself out of the hospital and returned to her beloved homestead cottage to die alone. Her volunteer hospice worker, Glorie, is a Harvard MBA recently transplanted to this rural backwater from New York. Glorie is tense, unhappy and guilt-ridden, her only child having been killed in an auto accident when she was driving. As she attempts to care for and comfort the cantankerous Grace, the sophisticated Glorie gains new perspectives on values and life's highs and lows.

History
Grace and Glorie was first presented at Theatre Virginia in Richmond, Virginia in the spring of 1991. It was directed by Terry Burgler.
GRACE STILES - ninety year old country woman.
GLORIA WHITMORE - late thirties, early forties. A New Yorker.
  • Time Period 1990s
  • Setting Grace's cottage located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia one recent fall.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

"A sentimental odd couple crowd pleaser...[with] a steady drip of easy laughs." - The New Tork Times

"A lot of good humor...artfully designed to confirm hopes...Offers the opportunity for good, honest, grandstanding acting." - The New York Post


Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)
  • Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)
  • Chorus Size N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Tom Ziegler

Tom Ziegler is a native of Chicago. His play Grace and Glorie was first presented at The Shenandoah Valley Playwrights Retreat under the title Apple Dreams and later went on to a successful off-Broadway run starring Estelle Parsons and Lucie Arnez at the Laura Pels Theatre in ...

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