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(readings), Westbeth Theatre Center, N.Y.C., 1999 and 2000
Pearls and Rubies takes place over the course of Fourth of July weekend, 1999. Five alumnae of a Seven Sisters’ college return to their alma mater to assemble a paper on women’s roles in the 1990’s. Amanda returns with her closest college friend, Robin, who’s now a successful sitcom writer. They are met by Alice, a retired fiction editor, who’s come to see her protégé, Lisa. Ginny has taken the weekend away from her husband and toddler, only to discover she’s pregnant, thereby confronted with the choice between another child and her career. Lisa’s marriage is on the rocks, and she discovers that Amanda is the other woman. Amanda and Robin’s friendship is tested when Robin must choose between her conscience and an opportunity to advance her career. The five women leave the college with transformed lives.
This play has one set, the living room/dining room of a small college dormitory. It is set in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. It is in two acts.
This play has not been professionally or otherwise produced. In 1999, the script won an Honorable Mention in the Writers’ Digest Competition. In 1993, an earlier version won Third Place in the Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence, and in 1994, a monologue from a still earlier version of the play (“Robin”) was published in Monologues for Women, By Women, published by Heinemann.
Download a PDF sample scene.
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