Last Dance
by Marsha Norman

Name: Last Dance
Brand: Marsha Norman
SKU: 9780573629761
Rating: 3.14 (6 reviews)

Last Dance Book Cover — Last Dance Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 minsStrong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)Interior SetAmerican Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers find the play to be a sparkling comedy filled with wit and romance. The charming dialogue and well-developed characters resonate with audiences, offering a satisfying yet unexpected ending. Many appreciate its Southern themes, despite the French setting.

Witty and charming dialogueWell-developed charactersEngaging Southern themesEnding may not be what everyone wants

Synopsis

Claiming that she is tired of love, an aging but still beautiful poet from the American South who now lives on the coast of France has decided to give away her young lover.

But how can this be?

Her goddaughter thinks she has actually fallen in love with a local fisherman while her dashing friend believes she is finally ready to accept his proposal.

The young lover is equally certain she really wants to marry him.

This bittersweet comedy of manners is a tribute to the grandeur of Southern style and a musing on what a smart woman might really want toward the end of her life.

Press Reviews

"Pretty women, pretty men, pretty words...Marsha Norman's Last Dance [is] a play that suggests that if loveliness is not next to godliness, it is at least kind of divine."
— The New York Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Cab Charlotte's lover, also beautiful. In his late twenties. A poet.	male	—	Charlotte's lover, also beautiful. In his late twenties. A poet.
Georgeanne Charlotte's goddaughter. In her late twenties. Pale and shy, but not without resources. Also a poet.	female	—	Charlotte's goddaughter. In her late twenties. Pale and shy, but not without resources. Also a poet.
Randall Dellamar Charlotte's friend, a professor of herpetology in Savannah. Grand and sly and very entertaining.	—	—	Charlotte's friend, a professor of herpetology in Savannah. Grand and sly and very entertaining.
Charlotte a beautiful woman in her late forties.	female	—	a beautiful woman in her late forties.