The Great Nebula in Orion and Three Other Plays - The Family Continues & Farce & Victory on Mrs Dandywine’s Island

The Great Nebula in Orion This fascinating and brilliantly
inventive play details the chance meeting, after many years, of two
girlhood friends

One has “married well” and the other has achieved a successful career, but, for both, as their poignant and telling conversation reveals, there is an aching emptiness beneath the elegant veneer of their lives

Presented with great success both Off-Off-Broadway and in London

The Family Continues ~ A haunting play of memory, written in a stream of consciousness, contrapuntal style, which evokes the panorama of a young man’s life—birth, army service, marriage, job, parenthood, old age — within the brief span of its action

Highly innovative in its theatricality, the play illuminates not only the continuity of human life, but also the poignancy and bitterness which can infuse it

Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye ~ This explosively funny and ingenious farce deals with what might have been a seduction — but while she is all for it (despite her feeble protests) he has eyes only for her telephone

And what he can’t say to her face, floods out readily on the phone, with hilarious and devastating results

An Off-Off-Broadway success (as a triple bill with The Great Nebula in Orion and The Family Continues)

Victory on Mrs Dandywine’s Island ~ A high-style spoof on comedy in the Oscar Wilde mode, which keeps a delightfully straight face while poking fun at the stilted behavior of its very proper characters

The scene is the sitting room of Mrs Dandywine’s elegant summer “cottage,” where things take a flustered turn at the unexpected arrival of a man (!) who, of course, must be up to no good