Sally's Gone, She Left Her Name - Softcover

Davis, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881453919 ISBN 13: 9780881453911

Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated, 2008

Synopsis

Sally wants to leave home, as soon as possible, for art school in New York. Her mother seems increasingly distracted, or absent, and her younger brother, Christopher, is no help. Her successful father may or may not be involved with a younger woman at work. After Sally has a confrontation with her father, her mother suddenly disappears in the middle of the night. The play is about the last two weeks in the life of a perfect American family. But as this family unravels, as words and longings are misunderstood, and things fall apart, a larger spirit in each of these characters begins to show signs of life. "I first encountered the work of playwright Russell Davis ... at the world premier of his FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SALLY ... I found myself hanging on every word and admiring Davis's singular communicatory skills more with each passing moment ... amusing us more than a little en route with a verbal wizardry that warms and delights. Davis at the same time painlessly imparts a deeper universal meaning having to do with personal signposts lost and regained ..." -Nels Nelson, Daily News

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Review:

...it must be said that Davis is an expert at exposition. The way we gradually learn who Cynthia and Christopher are and their relationship to each other is as good as playwrighting gets. --Peter Filichia, The Star-Ledger

on APPOINTMENT WITH A HIGH WIRE LADY: There's so much good writing in Russell Davis' APPOINTMENT WITH A HIGH WIRE LADY... During it's penultimate moment, APPOINTMENT WITH A HIGH WIRE LADY achieves a level of descriptive prose rarely seen on a stage...all of Davis' ideas merge into an ornate tapestry and the delicacy of his weaving becomes, for the first time, apparent. --Bob Harrington, New York Post

I first encountered the work of playwright Russell Davisâ ¦at the world premier of his FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SALLYâ ¦. I found myself hanging on every word and admiring Davis' singular communicatory skills more with each passing moment. â ¦amusing us more than a little en route with a verbal wizardry that warms and delights. Davis at the same time painlessly imparts a deeper universal meaning having to do with personal signposts lost and regainedâ ¦ --Nels Nelson, Daily News

on APPOINTMENT WITH A HIGH WIRE LADY: There's so much good writing in Russell Davis' APPOINTMENT WITH A HIGH WIRE LADY... During it's penultimate moment, APPOINTMENT WITH A HIGH WIRE LADY achieves a level of descriptive prose rarely seen on a stage...all of Davis' ideas merge into an ornate tapestry and the delicacy of his weaving becomes, for the first time, apparent. --Bob Harrington, New York Post

I first encountered the work of playwright Russell Davis...at the world premier of his FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SALLY.... I found myself hanging on every word and admiring Davis' singular communicatory skills more with each passing moment. ...amusing us more than a little en route with a verbal wizardry that warms and delights. Davis at the same time painlessly imparts a deeper universal meaning having to do with personal signposts lost and regained... --Nels Nelson, Daily News

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0881453919
• ISBN 13: 9780881453911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102