Laughing Stock (Morey)
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SKU: HU.9780822220732
Play, Plays. Softcover Book. Hal Leonard Australia #9780822220732. Published by Hal Leonard Australia (HU.9780822220732).ISBN D0822220733. 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.1 inches.
THE STORY: LAUGHING STOCK is a hilarious backstage farce and genuinely affectionate look into the world of the theatre. When The Playhouse, a rustic New England summer theatre, schedules a repertory season of Dracula, Hamlet and Charley's Aunt, comic mayhem ensues. We follow the well-intentioned but over-matched company from outrageous auditions to ego-driven rehearsals through opening nights gone disastrously awry to the elation of a great play well told and the comic and nostalgic season close.
"a summer stock production of Dracula disintegrates into chaos on opening night. Gothic horror becomes high comedy amid misplaced technical cues, forgotten lines, wrong entrances and eccentric actingthe large audience howled with glee as they watched the mayhem unfold" - Salt Lake Tribune. "LAUGHING STOCK soars as farce" - Salt Lake City Weekly. "The delightful thingis that Morey strikes a balance between a depiction of everything that can and usually does go wrongand a genuinely affectionate look at the magic that holds theatre companies togetherthese are all type characters but Morey adeptly deepens and individualizes each oneThe Dracula section and a rehearsal of Charley's Aunt where the actors improvise being animals at dusk around an African water hole are comic high point" - Event (Salt Lake City). "LAUGHING STOCK will indeed have you laughing in your seat if not rolling in the aislesIt's hard to imagine anyone whose funny bone wouldn't be tickled by this oneit's a hootit's a blast" - Monadnock Ledger (NH). "Scene after scene, beat after beat, LAUGHING STOCK piles on the laughsevery single piece crackles with successful wit and abundant humorvirtuoso farce" - Keene Sentinel (NH). "I cried, I choked, I fell into a coughing fit, I cried some morecan't help but love this play." - Nashua Telegraph (NH).