The Country Girl (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) - Softcover

Clifford Odets

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822202433 ISBN 13: 9780822202431

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1998

Synopsis

One of America's great dramatists rocked the worlds of Broadway and Hollywood in this moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor and Georgie, his long-suffering wife. A searing, emotional play of love and redemption.

A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Spencer Garrett, Harry Hamlin, Jamie Hanes, Stacy Keach, Rick Podell, Mandy Siegfried and Mare Winningham.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

One of America's great dramatists rocked the worlds of Broadway and Hollywood in this moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor and Georgie, his long-suffering wife. A searing, emotional play of love and redemption.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:

Harry Hamlin as Bernie Dodd

Stacy Keach as Frank Elgin

Mare Winningham as Georgie Elgin

Jamie Hanes as Larry

Rick Podell as Phil Cook

Spencer Garrett as Paul Unger

Mandy Siegfried as Nancy Stoddard

Directed by Nancy Malone. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

About the Author:

Ernest Lehman lives in Los Angeles, California. One of the most critically and commercially successful screenwriters ever to work in Hollywood, his movie scripts include "Sabrina," "The King and I," "Somebody Up There Likes Me," "West Side Story," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf," and "Portnoy's Complaint,"
Known primarily as one of the great American playwrights--his classic dramas in "Waiting for Lefty" and "Rocket to the Moon--"Clifford Odets also wrote or co-wrote 18 movies for film and television.
Stacy Keach is a renowned actor on stage and screen. He has won a Golden Globe Award, multiple Obie and Drama Desk Awards, three Vernon Rice Awards, the Helen Hayes Award, and the prestigious Millennium Recognition Award for his outstanding contribution to the classical theater.

Mare Winningham has appeared in more than fifty film and television projects, garnering an Academy Award nomination for "Georgia" and Emmy Awards for the telefilms "George Wallace" and "Amber Waves". She is also an accomplished singer-songwriter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0822202433
• ISBN 13: 9780822202431
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72