Laugh
by Beth Henley
Synopsis
The West. The 1920s.
Mabel’s had a hard few weeks.
A dynamite accident at a gold mine has left her wealthy but orphaned; she’s shipped off to a calculating aunt, whose nephew is charged with seducing her to control Mabel’s fortune.
This hapless courtship reveals a shared love of silent movies and a plan for greater things.
A story of mishaps and moxie, the romance of Hollywood and ultimately a Hollywood-caliber romance.
A slapstick comedy from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Crimes of the Heart.
Press Reviews
"Set in the 1920s and inspired by silent film comedies, right down to [a] live piano score and title-card style narration, LAUGH—an imperative, not a noun—is a Muppety assemblage of outrageous zut alors! accents, awful fake beards, pendulous fake boobs, and cream-pies-in-faces…In intention and in effect, it is decidedly and unreservedly silly."
— Washington City Paper
Publication
Laugh is a American historical play written by Beth Henley and published by Dramatists Play Service (2016).
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Dramatists Play Service · 2016 · 59 pp
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