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The Orphans
by James Prideaux

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Highlights

6

Small Cast

3

Female

3

Male
90 mins Interior Set American Comedy

Synopsis

THE STORY: For the past 25 years Lily and Catherine Spangler have lived in seclusion in their hotel room, their only visitor being their lawyer, who delivers (in cash) the profits from the steel mill they inherited from their father.

When they firs

Themes American Drama

Press Reviews

"A touching, funny and delightfully antic study of what happens when two eccentric (and immensely rich) spinster ladies, who have lived in isolation for 25 years, are suddenly confronted with an “outside world” they find difficult to comprehend, much less accept.   “…Prideaux has given life to two of the most charming eccentrics since Marsha and Abby Brewster poisoned all of those lonely men in Arsenic and Old Lace."

— Variety

Publication

Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822208648
ISBN-10 0822208644

The Orphans is a American comedy play written by James Prideaux and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).

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