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JACK DUNPHY (1914 - 1992)
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Cafe Moon Gay Apprentice Light A Penny Candle Saturday Night Kid, The Squirrel Sweet Of You To Say So Too Close For ComfortCafe Moon
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Monty has never loved anything in his life except a small turtle that died years before. Now, an aging and disillusioned clerk, his only pleasure is in drinking his nights away at the Cafe Moon. One evening a premonition of Death comes to him in the guise of a young dandy. He finds himself stuck in the doorway with the young man, and try as he will, he cannot, or will not, move away. He is attracted and repelled at the same time. He takes one drink after another to quiet the terror of his premonition, while the young man, who has placed a bet on Monty's nightly habit of entering the bar, tries to persuade him to go in. Finally, the young man changes his mind about the bet and leaves, returning to offer Monty love in the form of another small turtle. But it is too late. Monty is dead.
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fantasy One act
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Top of PageGay Apprentice
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Theatre De Lys, New York 1960
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Top of PageLight A Penny Candle
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Top of PageSaturday Night Kid, The
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Provincetown Playhouse, New York 1958
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Top of PageSquirrel
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an interesting sketch about a shy office clerk who likes squirrels so much that he almost believes he is one, until one day he takes an acquaintance to the park to show him "his people." He is harshly reminded by the incidents that follow that, like it or not, he is still human, that squirrels are squirrels, and never the twain shall meet.
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Theatre De Lys, New York 1962
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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sketch One act
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageSweet Of You To Say So
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Theatre De Lys, New York 1962
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Top of PageToo Close For Comfort
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an absorbing play about a suicide prone young man on the verge of jumping off a bridge, only to be interrupted by his bitterly sardonic mother, who he ran away from many years before, after attempting to kill her. She no longer recognizes him, having been fleeing him in fear for all this time. Two ultra-civilized, do-gooders enter to rescue the young man. However, they seem more interested in out-doing each other in dwelling on their personal feelings over the young man's attempt at death, than in actually helping him. at last, in a chilling ending, we realize that they are not really concerned about saving his life, but in witnessing his morbid end.
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Theatre De Lys, New York 1960
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Dramatists Play Service, NY, -
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Comedy Drama One act
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Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: -
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