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The Drowning Bride
Michael Futcher
Drowning Sorrows
by Douglas Post
Synopsis
THE STORY: Duncan Crawford, a bartender on the island of St. John, is considering abandoning his bar for greater adventure when an heiress from Manhattan, Emily Miles, wanders into his establishment.
She begins to tell him the story of her life: ho
Press Reviews
"A specialty of playwright Douglas Post: a philosophical mystery…working in territory that Alfred Hitchcock explored…Post weaves in deeper considerations on memory, commitment and the strange ways of the passage of time.” —Chicago Tribune. ”Post's play, unfolding in a swiftly moving succession of scenes without intermission, shines when his sharply drawn characters trade wisecracks and ironies.“ —Chicago Sun-Times. ”A kind of dramatic Rorschach test, Post's psychological puzzler forces audiences to fill in some tantalizing blanks."
— Chicago Reader
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1998
Pages 61
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822216292
ISBN-10 0822216299
LCCN 2006482193
LCC PS3566.O683 D76 1998
Drowning Sorrows is a American mystery play written by Douglas Post and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).
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