Father's Prize Poland China
by Shirley Sergent

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Highlights

105 mins Present Day All Women Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

Father's Prize Poland China exposes the madness of addicitons, jealousies, and strange bonds between rivaling sisters.

The psycho-farce takes place in the rural Southern kitchen of the Pulaski farmhouse and centers around the two Pulaski sisters: Pat, a wildly repressed fundamentalist; and Judy, a hard-drinking go-go dancer.

The two sisters play cat and mouse as they entangle each other in the murder of the local Don Juan, a waitress named Flo who looks a lot like their dead mother, their father's disappearance, and the slaying of his prized hog.

Press Reviews

"A comedy about crimes of the swine...Sergent writes with a dark whimsy that suggests one of Beth Henley's eccentric families gone haywire."

— Richard Dodds, Theatre critic of Lagniapppe

Characters

Character
Judy Pulaski

25. While drunk most of her life, sees that reality as painfully real.  She is ultra-sensitive and a voice for the well-being of hogs. The younger sister, Judy is a hard-drinking sensitive and caring go-go dancer

Pat Pulaski

30.Sees only black and white, either or, with no vision for anything resembling the middle. It's either yes or no, do or don't.  Her black and white kitchen gives a visual image of her mind. The older sister, Pat is a repressed fundamentalist who sees herself as pure and good.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1996
Binding Paperback
Pages 89
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573695964
ISBN-10 0573695962
LCCN 99214709
LCC PS3569.E685 F38 1996
DCC 812/.54

Father's Prize Poland China is a American comedy play written by Shirley Sergent and published by Samuel French in New York (1996).

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