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The Reeves Tale

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  2w, 4m

Don Nigro

A modern retelling of a spirited and lusty chapter in The Canterbury Tales , this addition to the author's cycle of Pendragon plays is set in 1972.

The Reeves Tale

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary
A modern retelling of a spirited and lusty chapter in The Canterbury Tales , this addition to the author's cycle of Pendragon plays is set in 1972. The disreputable Reeves family has rented the decaying Pendragon mansion in east Ohio. Strange happenings begin to plague the family's crude and brutal patriarch and his angry wife, luscious daughter and demented grandfather-in-law as well as their two boarders, both lustful college drop-outs. Eerie colors appear in the yard at night, trees seem to move around, animals disappear and there is something at the bottom of the well. This funny and frightening work was first produced in New York by the Red Moon Ensemble.
History
Produced in New York by the Red Moon Ensemble in 1987, directed by L. R. Hults.
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Performing Groups
SIM REEVES - 38
ABBY - his wife, 32
MOLKIN - their daughter, 16
PAP - Abby's grandfather, 80
JOHN - 27
ALEN - 27
  • Time Period 1970s
  • Setting The old Pendragon house just outside the Armitage, Ohio, in the year 1972.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • 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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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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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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