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A Madhouse in Goa

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 4m

"The best new play of the London year." - Time

"Has guts, intellectual playfulness, humor and tenderness." - The New York Times

"A piece of theatrical daring." - The Daily Mail

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 4m

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Summary

Webs of personal, political, sexual, social and artistic deception unfold in the indigo nights and bright days of the Greek islands in this two part play by the author of Bent which starred Vanessa Redgrave in London and Judith Ivey in New York. In A Table for a King, which can also be produced as a one act, a writer helps blackmail an unpleasant and uncompromising woman who refuses to relinquish her table on the terrace of a Corfu hotel for the King of Greece. Part Two, Keeps Rainin' All the Time, moves to Santorini where a disparate group of expatriates, including a famous author, face nuclear rain, terrorism and the impending eruption of the volcano. The same cast may appear in both parts.

M4 (Part One: 18, 20s, 30s; Part Two: 19, 20s, 40s) F2 (Part One: 60s; Part Two: 20s, 40s)

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    Two verandas

Licensing & Materials

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Authors

Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman is an American screenwriter and playwright. Sherman is an openly gay Jew and has lived in London since 1980. He attended the Boston University College of Fine Arts, and received a BFA in dramatic arts in 1960. Sherman's most successful film was adapted from the ...
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