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Three New Plays for Young Actors
From the Young Actors Studio
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by Josh Adell and Gideon Brower,
Edited by Kerry Muir
Limelight Edns/applause
Due/Published
July 2001, 224 pages,
paper
ISBN
0879109572
In Promenade a young girl without a date for her junior high school prom decides to disguise herself as a boy to make friends with a guy she's attracted to. She dreams he will eventually ask her to the prom, but first she has to learn, from the school's resident acting expert, how to make her male impersonation believable. As a result she also learns not only about acting but about friendship, loyalty - and the importance of being true to oneself. Summer finds teenager Alice recalling the summer she was nine, when she and her friends were bored and hot and her biggest concern was winning first place in a local talent show, and when her older brother fell in love with romantic Italian movies and a girl named Gina and her older sister taught herself to dance from a tape. Now, looking back on it, the summer when "nothing happened" may have been for Alice something else entirely. Befriending Bertha centers on three children - a boy who can't stop talking, a girl who can barely speak and another girl who claims to drive her own Cadillac - drawn into an unlikely bond. They weave a web of fantasy and drama in which they seek refuge from the problems they face in reality. When these two worlds collide, each of the kids must face the challenge of dealing with truth while keeping hope alive." |
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