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Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  2w, 2m

Carla Ching

Mable Kwan is the best grifter that ever lived. She taught sons H and Francis to be the best roper and fixer around. When youngest daughter Blue puts together the score of the decade, will they all get in on the action or who will walk away with it all?

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Mystery/Thriller
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades

  • Winner of the Edgerton New American Play Award
    Seattle Times Footlights Award for one of the year’s best New Plays on a Small Stage

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Summary

Mable Kwan is the best grifter that ever lived. She taught sons H and Francis to be the best roper and fixer around. When youngest daughter Blue puts together the con of the decade, will they get in on the action together or will one of them walk away with it all?

History

Workshops with EST, Partial Comfort and Lark Play Development Center 
Productions at South Coast Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre  and Porkfilled

Cast Attributes
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Performing Groups

BLUE
MABLE
FRANCIS
H

2M, 2F

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol

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REVIEWS

"Ms. Ching reveals the real affection that these characters feel for one another, even as they lie, cheat and steal with skill and avidity. Here, the family that cons together, belongs together." - NY Times Read More

"What makes this play so delightfully funny is the playwright's canny sense of what the audience can and can't anticipate — the playwright’s the best con artist of all:  she knows what we will and won’t figure out, and that, as the play continues and we catch on, we’ll get smarter — so she ups the ante." - Yvonne Korshak Read More

"This game gets twisted, while being turned into a Mad Hatter’s tea party of misdirections. The audience laughs and thrills to this carnival ride of manipulation and greed, spinning rapidly to its effervescent conclusion of how families exploit vulnerabilities for their own selfish motives." - Times Square Chronicles Read More

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Authors

Carla Ching

Carla Ching
An LA native, Carla stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and wrote and performed with them for three years, which she still considers her first theater training. Her plays include NOMAD MOTEL (2015 O’Neill Playwright ...
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