Ghost On Fire
by Michael Weller

Name: Ghost On Fire
Brand: Michael Weller
SKU: 9780573696251
Rating: 3.33 (10 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

105 minsPresent DayUnit Set/Multiple SettingsContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesAmerican Comedy

Synopsis

Comic drama / Characters: 7 male, 4 or 5 female Scenery: Various sets or unit set After showing dazzling promise in school but no success in Hollywood, director Dan Rittman suffered a breakdown and quit film making.

Cameraman Neil Toomie, a hilarious, irreverent lapsed Catholic, shows up five years later with a horror film project he wants his friend to direct.

Neil doesn't know that he has a brain tumor and limited time in which to rekindle the spark of old dreams.

Dan doesn't realize how t

Press Reviews

"A poignant play suffused with humor.... A witty and rueful elegy for a generation weaned on such high idealism, learning that there are limitations to life."
— N.Y. Times

"We don't have a more fluent playwright than Michael Weller."
— L.A. Times

"Weller manages to cry out from deep inside his generation's soul."
— Chicago Tribune

"Exhilarating."
— Chicago Daily Herald

"Weller's work, one suspects, will outlast most of his more voguish contemporaries."
— Variety

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
DANIEL RITTMAN a teacher, late 30's	—	30	a teacher, late 30's
LAUREL a graduate student, early 20's	—	20	a graduate student, early 20's
NEIL TOOMIE a camera operator, late 30's	—	30	a camera operator, late 30's
JULIA RITTMAN(Dan's wife) Dan's wife, mid-30's	female	mid-30	Dan's wife, mid-30's
TOM COOPER soap opera star, late 30's	—	30	soap opera star, late 30's
RALPH dissolute English doctor/poet, 40's	—	40	dissolute English doctor/poet, 40's
ADEN PALTZ philosopher, early 40's	—	40	philosopher, early 40's
MICHELLE(Neil's wife) MARIE - Neil's wife, mid-20's	female	mid-20	MARIE - Neil's wife, mid-20's
GINA Avram's comapanion	—	—	Avram's comapanion
AVRAM SCHENKER Israeli millionaire, 40's	—	40	Israeli millionaire, 40's
NATHAN BERGER rural black man, mid-70's	male	mid-70	rural black man, mid-70's