Here Lies Jeremy Troy
by Jack Sharkey
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Readers love the humor and wit in this play. Many appreciate Jack Sharkey's comedic style, finding it consistently entertaining and enjoyable.
Synopsis
Farce Characters: 3 male 2 female Complete interior set.
A lawyer who is up for a partnership is visited by a school chum who lives by sponging off classmates.
He blackmails the lawyer into putting him up on the very night the boss is coming for dinner whereupon the wife leaves.
The sponger discovers that the lawyer's degree is a fraud.
A model is hired to play the wife's a dumb beauty whose attempts to help backfire.
More trouble erupts when the wife returns.
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Press Reviews
"An applauding success! A smashing hit! The audience roared! A rib tickler if I ever saw one!"
— Bangor Daily News
"Highly amusing ... loaded with laughs ... rapid-fire comical situations ... steady laughter. During the intermissions, high praise for the new play could be heard everywhere."
— Skowhegan Morning Sentinel
"A hilarious farce, sexy but nice...a bright comedy with witty dialogue...one just can't help laughing!"
— Syracuse Post-Standard
"Jack Sharkey has a hit on his hands!"
— Kup's Column
"A refreshing revelation...clean, sparkling comedy...almost breathless comedy, except the audience needs its breath for the next laugh. Recommended for the whole family. Waves of laughter rolled over the performers on the stage. A five-pointed satellite that promises to sail onto Broadway and shine there for a long time!"
— Henderson/Kennebec Journal
Characters
| Character |
|---|
Kathryn Troy Jeremy's wife. |
Charlie Bickle an old friend of Jeremy's. |
Tina Winslow an undergraduate model. |
Sven Ivorsen Jeremy's boss. |
Jeremy Troy a law clerk. |
Publication
Here Lies Jeremy Troy is a American comedy play written by Jack Sharkey and published by Samuel French in New York (2010).
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Samuel French · 2010 · 102 pp
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