New York City, 1959. Fading vaudeville comic Chick Sherman, along with his long-suffering agent, tries to revive his career with a role in an avant-garde off-Broadway play. While his grown daughter searches for answers from her absentee showbiz father, a lifetime of private and professional struggles rise to the surface, cracking the polished public persona of the world’s favorite former “funny man.”
Cast of Characters:
(1W, 5M)
CHICK Sherman
DIRECTOR (OFF STAGE VOICE)*
Milt “JUNIOR” Karp
KATHARINE Sherman
NATHAN Wise
MATTHEW Baroni
VICTOR La Plant
* Any of the actors who play Nathan, Matthew or Victor can double
as the voice of the Director.
Place: New York City
Time: 1959
Author
Bruce Graham began his career as a playwright at the Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays (PFT) in 1984 with Burkie. Graham became playwright-in-residence at PFT and later served two years as Artistic Director. He has received grants from the Pew Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and was a past winner of the Princess Grace Foundation Statuette. He won the Rosenthal Prize for Coyote On A Fence, two Barrymore Awards for Something Intangible and Any Given Monday, and the Joseph Jefferson Award for The Outgoing Tide. Fully Accessible, The Happy F!@#$%g Blind Guy, and Everybody Hits are published in Best Ten Minute Plays anthologies.
An ex-high school teacher, Graham still teaches playwriting and film courses at Drexel University. In the past he has taught graduate level playwriting at University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University and Rutgers. He has conducted playwriting workshops in high schools and colleges across the country....[FULL BIO]