Synopsis
The Octette Bridge Club
Published by Samuel French Inc
1 Male 8 Female
There are eight wonderful roles for women in this sentimental comedy about American life in a bygone era. On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip
The first act takes place in 1934; the second ten years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona
The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own
"One of the most charming plays to come to the stage this season.... A delightful, funny, moving glimpse of the sort of lives we are all familiar with our own" ~ N.Y. Daily News