The Ladies of Fisher Cove
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Play Description
A comic fairy tale that depicts the lives of three sisters off the coast of Maine who save the life of a mysterious stranger washed ashore. The hamlet is under quarantine, and all the men are dying except for the stranger. He makes unusual demands on each sister until they discover the nature of his origin.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male)Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
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Press Quotes
“Allan Havis is one of the most gifted of our younger playwrights. His chief strength seems to me to be the way he shortens the distance between the private and the political. Quiet, intelligent, lyrical, his plays are that rarest of presences in the American theater: dramas that leave you with something to think about.” —Richard Gilman
“With [THE LADIES OF FISHER COVE], acclaimed playwright Allan Havis has given us a post-AIDS Witches of Eastwick what with three attractive, psychically bonded sisters all seduced by the same half-man, half-devil. This time, though, there’s little room for whimsy. These women and every other female in the small Maine town have been quarantined because all the men have died of a horrible plague. In fact, the strange, deformed, smooth-talking visitor is the first male to survive more than a few hours of contact with these women. Havis’s moody drama always keeps us guessing, its poetic moments surprisingly potent and its intentions never so obscure as to lost the audience.” —On Stage
“Allan Havis has fashioned a rollicking myth that might function as a rebuke for an errant feminism or as a wish fulfillment fantasy for a third sex. Whatever its purpose, it was great fun, marked by mystery [and] wit.” —J Rudolf Abate, Stages
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
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Publication Date | 6/1/2000 |
Pages | 154 |
ISBN | 9780881451399 |
Special Notes
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