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He's Having A Baby
Fred Carmichael
The Baby Dance
by Gardner Mckay, Jane Anderson
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Synopsis
A desperate L.A. professional couple, unable to have children, arrange to buy the unborn baby of a dirt-poor Louisiana pair.
Emotions run high and relationships hang by a thread in this passionate and heartbreaking Off-Broadway drama by Mad Man writer Jane Anderson.
It is a play that audiences will take home with them; it might provoke disagreement, as do the issues themselves.
Press Reviews
"An absolutely brilliant piece of playwriting."
— Kansas City Star
"Rich language, broad humor, and true wit - an authentic piece of literature."
— Missouri Rep
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| DICK CURRAN [cur-ren] - The oldest human being alive at Cliffhorn Heads, a bit wise, a bit adream. |
| SHOUTER MACTOMAS [moc-toe-maash] - Another ancient, a man of bearing, a man of old rules and superstitions. |
| SMIGGY FLAHERTY [FLAH-herty] - Colm's age, his closest friend. A quiet man, gently spoken, strong as the rest. |
| ROISIN FLAHERTY (Smiggy's wife) [ROE-sheen flah-herty] - Smiggy's wife. A handsome, erect woman of the same age. |
| CIARAN JOYCE [keer-on] - Not yet twenty and anxious to get off the island |
| GOBNAT CONNEELY [gaub-nit coe-neely] - Martin's very young wife. Helps him in the pub and still shy about it. |
| TIM-COLIE CURRAN [tim-coalie] - Ciaran's age. Deaf and mute; and so maybe the finest instinctive fisher. |
| REDMOND CURRAN [cur-ren] - Maybe 40. The new king. A man embittered by the abandonment of the island, especially by Colm's. |
| DEARBHLA CONNEELY [der-vlah COE-neely]: Nearly as old as Dick. A seeress, whose finger is on the island's pulse. |
| MARTIN CONNEELY [COE-neely] - Middle-aged owner of the Captain's Public Drinking House. Guiness importer, fish exporter, ex-postmaster, wood seller. |
| FATHER DIRANE [deer-RON] - Middle-aged or older. An outdoor priest, proud of his parish at the Heads. |
| AIDAN CURRAN (Redmond's son) [aid'n] - Redmond's son, undecided: to leave the island or become a lifer. Ciaran's age. |
| COLM PRIMROSE [coal-l'm] - In his thirties. A returned islandman, the MacAfee's step-son. The would-be king. |
| THE MACAFEE [mac-uh-fee] - Old. The revenant of Colm's step-father and fishing partner. Bearded. |
| LIAM FLAHERTY [LEE-um flah-herty] - A fisher of Colm's age, steady, just as strong but more withdrawn than the others. |
| CAPT DEREK CHAMBERS Of the beam-trawler Surprise. British. Colm age, neatly bearded, midlands accent. |
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 1992
Binding Paperback
Pages 84
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573692987
ISBN-10 057369298X
LCCN 92174323
LCC PS3551.N3677 B33 1992
DCC 812/.54
The Baby Dance is a American comedy play written by Gardner Mckay and published by Samuel French in New York (1992).
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