Butterscotch
by Barbara L Smith

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Highlights

105 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

Butterscotch is a candy yellow 1947 Ford at the center of an unlikely friendship between a New York restaurant critic and a man who loves roadside diners.

The critic has come to a small Pennsylvania town to persuade his fiancee's father to attend their wedding in New York.

The bride, a news correspondent off on assignment, has not even told her cantankerous, ailing father she is getting married.

Adding to the bucolic fray are an elderly neighbor who has her fading eyesight on the widowed father, dad's hunting buddy and a nervous ex-New Yorker whose condo ruined a favorite hunting spot.

Father and future son in law share only a dislike for each other, but the vintage car brings about a surprising end to a seemingly hopeless impasse.

Press Reviews

"Very funny."

— Martha's Vineyard Times

"Humorous and humane."

— Greenwich News

"I can't believe I never heard of this play before ....It's the kind of show where people laugh their heads off, and then shed a few tears."

— Cedar Valley (Iowa) Courier

"Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read 'Butterscotch.' I had a lovely afternood going through it."

— Donald Sutherland

"I am interested in performing the role of 'Emery' in the television, feature film or stage production."

— Ed Asner

Characters

Character
Emery Baer

mid-70's, a rural, unpretentious senior

Bob Siler

about 40, friend of Emery's

Mitzi Keller

30's, another New Yorker

Lincoln Price

40's, New York restaurant critic

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1997
Binding Paperback
Pages 88
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573652318
ISBN-10 0573652317
LCCN 99214720
LCC PS3569.M4834 B88 1997
DCC 812/.54

Butterscotch is a American comedy play written by Barbara L Smith and published by Samuel French in New York (1997).

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