Misalliance Redux

When a troupe of actors from Chicago is hit by a class seven hurricane on a small island off Antigua, they are stranded without any means of transportation or communication. This was in the pre-hi-tech olden days of the 70s before cell phones, Ipods or laptops for that matter. As a result, they are forced into unprecedented co-operation and intimacies with surprising, sometimes touching but always hilarious arrangements and rearrangements. Names have been changed to protect both the innocent and not so innocent.

Pat Rahmann is a prize-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines including Kansas Quarterly, The Transatlantic Review, Other Voices, Spoon River Review, Confrontation, Crosscurrents and others. Her plays have had Equity productions in Chicago and New York and published by Bakers/Samuel French. Her awards include a grant from the Illinois Arts Council with the NEA, an Illinois Arts Council literary Award, first prize in a one-act play contest aired on ABC TV, Role of Honor in Foley's Best American Short Stories, and poetry read on NPR's All Things Considered. Her work has been anthologized in Editor's Choice II, Soundings and Chicago Writers II with a forward by Mayor Daley. Pat was co-owner of the successful independent bookstore, Books on Vernon in Glencoe, IL. She and her husband, John, were instrumental in launching the highly acclaimed Writers' Theatre, now in its 20th sell-out season.