The Best of Strangers
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Play Description
Two women sharing a hospital room cope with breast cancer, husbands, and racial barriers.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)Short Drama (about 55 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
- About the Author(s)
- About the Book
- Special Notes
Author(s)
Lee HunkinsLee Hunkins's stage works include FREEDOM IS MY MIDDLE NAME (Open Eye Theater); THE BEST OF STRANGERS and SEQUESTERED (American Folk Theatre); ANYBODY I WANT TO BE and JUST ONE STEP (Plays for Living); REVIVAL (Family Classics Theatre); and THE DOLLS (Afro American Total Theatre). Television productions include Hollow Image, a two-hour teleplay for ABC-TV; The Sign Painter's Dream, Uncle Jed's Barbershop, and Always My Dad (PBS Reading Rainbow Series). Published works include THE BEST OF STRANGERS (Broadway Play Publishing); FREEDOM IS MY MIDDLE NAME (Dramatic Publishing); and REVIVAL (Sea Urchin Press). Hunkins is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and two Emmy nominations. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East; The Dramatists Guild; the League of Professional Theatre Women and New York Women in Film and Television..
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 10/1/1995 |
| Pages | 502 |
| ISBN | 9780881451122 |
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