How To Say Goodbye
by Mary Gallagher
Synopsis
THE STORY: The action of the play is set in Cleveland on the day before young Conor Staiger is to undergo an operation which he will not, for long, survive.
Then, in flashbacks, we meet Conor's parents, Marty and Casey, whose marriage has not prove
Press Reviews
"…the play touches us with its sensitivity to the extenuating circumstances of a shared crisis.” —The New York Times. “Gallagher gracefully balances humor and pathos…An unusually poignant drama that leaves us strangely optimistic in the face of tragedy.” —Backstage. “…HOW TO SAY GOODBYE has a terrible Chekhovian sense of life as a diminished thing."
— Village Voice
Publication
How To Say Goodbye is a American play written by Mary Gallagher and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1998 · 72 pp
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Restrictions: Major Markets Plus (US) / Standard Plus Add'l Postcodes (UK)
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