Ghost-Writer
by Michael Hollinger

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Highlights

90 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings

Synopsis

THE STORY: Novelist Franklin Woolsey dies mid-sentence, but his secretary Myra continues to take dictation.

Attacked by skeptics, the press and Woolsey's jealous widow, Myra sets out to prove she is more than just an artful forger.

Is she trying to steal Woolsey's legacy now that she cannot have his love, or might she truly possess a gift the world can't understand?

Press Reviews

"An absorbing tale. GHOST-WRITER works marvelously well—a finely wrought piece of entertainment that does just what it sets out to do.” —Wall Street Journal. “Tantalizing, understated and lovely. This engrossing, old-fashioned play is about the drama of writing—and typing—and creativity and love. People who care about semi-colons (and you know who you are), this show is for you…[An] extraordinary marriage between fiction and theater.” —Philadelphia Inquirer. ”It's many plays in one—a love story of the utmost restraint, an unbiased portrayal of a lover's triangle, a portrait of a seamless working partnership and a meditation on the act of creation. All that rolls out in about ninety minutes without a misplaced word or a surplus syllable.“ —Palm Beach Daily News. ”The scenes that most crackle with English-language love are the working moments between Myra and Franklin, and not only because their sexual tension is as thick as cement. Between the rat-a-tat-tat clatter of the typewriter a"

— Broward-Palm Beach New Times

Publication

ISBN-13 9780822225379
ISBN-10 0822225379

Ghost-Writer is a play written by Michael Hollinger and published by Dramatists Play Service .

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