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THE
GLASS MENDACITY
Copyright: The Illegitimate
Players
Publisher: Broadway
Play Publishing, NY
Writers: Maureen
Morley and Tom Willmorth, Story development: The Illegitimate Players
Premiere: Victory
Gardens - 1989 by The Illegitimate Players / Banshee Productions
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"By combining
Williams' three most celebrated dramas, the authors have come up with plenty
of powerhouse material for their irreverent magnolia operetta."
Sid Smith, Chicago
Tribune
"In the twisted
world of THE GLASS MENDACITY, the ensemble's inspired send-up of the characters
and crises of Tennessee Williams, the Players deconstruct a funhouse pantheon
that riotously hurls together the author's most outrageous oddballs. Loads
and loads of laughs result."
Lawrence Bommer,
Windy City Times
"...the Illegitimate's
GLASS MENDACITY will delight any Williams buff with its nonstop barrage
of informed in-jokes."
Albert Williams,
Reader
Big Daddy DuBois (Keith
Cooper) and Maggie the Cat (Maureen Morley)
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OF
GRAPES AND NUTS
Copyright: The Illegitimate
Players
Publisher: Broadway
Play Publishing, NY
Writers: Doug
Armstrong, Keith Cooper, Tom Willmorth
Premiere: Victory
Gardens - 1991 by The Illegitimate Players / Banshee Productions
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"'It ain't the heat,
it's the humility.' That opening line strangely summarizes the heartbreak
of GRAPES OF WRATH and sets the tone for this clever show. Irreverent on
its surface, hilariously accurate in its mimicry, OF GRAPES AND NUTS is
a tribute par excellence to Steinbeck...."
Susan Pellowe,
Plays International
"The Players have scaled
comic heights before. Their GLASS MENDACITY was the most devastating send-up
of Tennessee Williams since his last four plays, and ALL MY SPITE reduced
Arthur Miller to an hour-long gut buster. But with OF GRAPES AND NUTS,
a surefire satire on Steinbeck, they've struck the mother lode of comedy."
Lawrence Bommer,
Reader
Ma Joad (Maureen Morley),
Lenny (Keith Cooper), Tom Joad (Tom Willmorth) and Preacher Casey (Doug
Armstrong)
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A
CHRISTMAS TWIST
Copyright: The Illegitimate
Players
Publisher: Broadway
Play Publishing, NY
Writers: Keith
Cooper, Maureen Morley and Doug Armstrong
Premiere: Victory
Gardens - 1992 by The Illegitimate Players / Banshee Productions
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"A
CHRISTMAS TWIST is a very funny satire of Dickensian excesses about Christmas
and poor people and the rich people who don't care about them.... A CHRISTMAS
TWIST is bursting with cruel humor that makes a desperately needed mockery
of Christmas sentimentality. It's perfect theatre for the holiday season."
Wayne Scott,
Windy City Times
"This script by actor-playwrights Doug Armstrong, Keith Cooper, Maureen
Morley and Tom Willmorth jams plot elements from several sources into one
hilariously unlikely story.... All in all, this is a welcome orgy of irreverence
for anyone who finds Christmas a grueling experience."
Albert Williams,
Reader
"The Illegitimate Players are universally adept at creating rich, deep
comic characterizations, combining the energy and spontaneous humor of
improv with the intellectually pleasing thoughtfulness of well-crafted
satire."
Brian J Hieggelke,
New City
Tiny Twist (Paul Stroili),
Fagin (Tom Willmorth) and Little Artful Annie (Maureen Morley)
Other full length productions from The
Illegitimate Players include:
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All My Spite
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Pandora Skulnk Won't Come Out of the House
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Mystery Date
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Cheese Louise
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The Day the Arts Stood Still
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