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A PLAYSCRIPTS TITLE
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 2m, 1 any gender (youth)
Philip Dawkins
By the end of 1928, all three Fail sisters will be dead. A magical, musical fable where the power of love is far greater than any individual‘s successes or failures.
By the end of 1928, all three Fail sisters will be dead – expiring in reverse order, youngest to oldest, from blunt object to the head, disappearance and finally consumption. Tuneful songs, and a whimsical chorus follow the story of Nelly, Jenny June and Gerty as they live out their lives above the family clock repair shop near the Chicago River, before their time unexpectedly runs out. A magical, musical fable where, in the end, the power of love is far greater than any individual‘s successes or failures.
Failure: A Love Story premiered at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois in 2012. Directed by Seth Bockley, the production featured Baize Buzan, Janet Brooks, Matt Fletcher and Emjoy Gavino.
NELLY FAIL – The youngestJENNY JUNE FAIL – The middlestGERTRUDE FAIL – The eldestJOHN N. FAIL – The brotherMORTIMER MORTIMER – The loverTHE CHORUS
Author‘s Note: The Chorus can take any number of shapes. Multiple people, one person, puppets... feel free to reassign some or all of the Chorus‘ lines to other characters.
Various locations. 1928.
“Fantastically macabre.” – The Huffington Post
“A wholly wonderful show that is profound, yet at the very same time whimsical beyond all imagining – a show in which time is of the essence, and in which love and death (especially death that comes suddenly and prematurely) conjoin in the strangest yet most beautiful of waltzes.” – The Chicago Sun Times
“A Chicago tale full of emotional riches... In particular and most movingly, the play is probing the whole idea of how all of our loves and our happiness are, alas, bound by the confines of time.” – The Chicago Tribune
Failure: A Love Story – In Rehearsal with the Marin Theatre Company
Failure: A Love Story – Marin Theatre Company Trailer