This Love Song Sucks
Gael Natal
Failure: A Love Story
by Philip Dawkins
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Synopsis
By the end of 1928, all three Fail sisters will be dead – expiring in reverse order, youngest to oldest, from blunt object to the head, disappearance and finally consumption.
Tuneful songs, and a whimsical chorus follow the story of Nelly, Jenny June and Gerty as they live out their lives above the family clock repair shop near the Chicago River, before their time unexpectedly runs out.
A magical, musical fable where, in the end, the power of love is far greater than any individual‘s successes or failures.
Press Reviews
"A wholly wonderful show that is profound, yet at the very same time whimsical beyond all imagining – a show in which time is of the essence, and in which love and death (especially death that comes suddenly and prematurely) conjoin in the strangest yet most beautiful of waltzes."
— The Chicago Sun Times
"A Chicago tale full of emotional riches... In particular and most movingly, the play is probing the whole idea of how all of our loves and our happiness are, alas, bound by the confines of time."
— The Chicago Tribune
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Jenny June Fail The middlest |
| Gertrude Fail The eldest |
| John N. Fail The brother |
| Mortimer Mortimer The lover |
| The Chorus |
| Nelly Fail The youngest |
Videos
Failure: A Love Story – In Rehearsal with the Marin Theatre Company
Publication
Failure: A Love Story is a comedy play written by Philip Dawkins and published by Playscripts .
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