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Jean Lenox Toddie

JEAN LENOX TODDIE  

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 And Go to Innisfree         And Send Forth a Raven         Bag of Green Apples, A         By the Name of Kensington         Is That the Bus to Pittsburgh?         Juice Of Wild Strawberries, The         Keeping Charlie Company         Late Sunday Afternoon, Early Sunday Evening         Little Something For The Ducks         Lookin' for a Better Berry Bush         Rockin' On The Milky Way         Round and Round the Mulberry Bush         Scent Of Honeysuckle, A         Silver Apples Of The Moon, The         Tell Me Another Story, Sing Me Another Song         Those Singing Sunday Mornings         White Room Of My Remembering

And Go to Innisfree

Synopsis:
It's October. The beach is deserted. A woman appears, flowered parasol raised and long skirt sweeping the sand. She has come to make a decision, but will she make it alone? The middle aged matron she was argues for the comfort of a retirement home. The child she was urges her to sit again and eat blackberries, to lie under the brambles and study ants, and to arise at long last and go to Innisfree.

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Samuel French Inc, New York, 1995   -

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Comedy/Drama One Act

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And Send Forth a Raven

Synopsis:
Heavy rain. Impassable roads. Flooding up stream. Most in town have fled the wild river. Five remain. Why does the owner of the rundown hostelry swear no damn river will run her off? Why does she put others at risk? And why has the Reverend forsaken an affluent congregation in the East to return to this backwater? This prize winning mystery drama explores the lives of five intriguing characters with eloquence and humor. Winner of the Dogwood National Play Contest and the George R. Kernodle Playwriting Competition and a second place in the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Contest.

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bag of Green Apples, A

Synopsis:
Patricia, a young woman of twenty, returns to the scene of her childhood-- her aunt Ester's beach house. She hopes to learn from her aunt, who raised her, answers about her past so that she can better understand who she is in the present. She interacts with Patty (her ten year old self) as well as with Ester of past and present. She finally decides to stay.

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Samuel French Inc, New York, 1990   -

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drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  1 f. c., 1 m. c

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By the Name of Kensington

Synopsis:
From the author of A Little Something for the Ducks, White Room of My Remembering and Looking for a Better Berry Bush, among others, comes the story of a well bred cricket from London who is dismayed to find himself playing doppelganger to a woman in Appalachia. In this humorous and touching tale of the relationship between an arrogant black cricket with a Bond Street address and a poorly educated young woman who aspires to better herself, this award winning playwright has created two uniquely lovable characters.

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Samuel French Inc, New York, 1998   -

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Genre:
Comic drama One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Is That the Bus to Pittsburgh?

Synopsis:
Winner of the 1992 John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Contest and of the 1993 Dubuque Fine Arts Players National Playwriting Contest, this is a warm and poignant play about daring to make dreams come true. Three quixotic characters with adjoining plots in a community garden have varying images of Pittsburgh as a city of longing, of memories, and of dreams. Published with Late Sunday Afternoon, Early Sunday Evening,

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Samuel French Inc, New York, 1994   -

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Juice Of Wild Strawberries, The

Synopsis:
A woman seeks renewal after loss in this touching 35 minute play. Ellie, who has lived on land "flat as an old man's feet" for forty years, packs a satchel, covers the sofa with a sheet and sets out to see what's on the other side of the mountain. She is followed. Is it Calvin there behind her, or is it her husband?

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Samuel French Inc, NY,    -

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Comedy/Drama One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Keeping Charlie Company

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One Act

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Late Sunday Afternoon, Early Sunday Evening

Synopsis:
Lovely Olivia walks through the rooms of her Boston home with hyacinths in her arms and amethysts in her ears, remembering her past incarnations and finding this one lacking in excitement. Her granddaughter is due; she has an announcement to make! Published with Is that the Bus to Pittsburgh?,

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Samuel French, London, 1994   -

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama One Act

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Little Something For The Ducks

Synopsis:
Winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Contest and the Princeton Players One Act Playwrighting Contest. This is a story of a zestful, youthful courtship. She is 68 and he is 79. They put their moves on each other in a minuet that is a joy to behold. Published with A Scent of Honeysuckle

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Samuel French Inc, New York,    -

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Genre:
Comedy Drama One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lookin' for a Better Berry Bush

Synopsis:
This is a humorous and touching tale by the author of A Bag of Green Apples. The plot follows a hard working waitress and a street woman who have vastly different life experiences as they clash on a city street, only to find themselves sitting together in front of a brownstone and tentatively reaching out for understanding.

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Comic Drama One Act

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Rockin' On The Milky Way

Synopsis:
Rockin' On The Milky Way is a collection of three one-act plays entitled Moon Beams In Mid-Morning, One White Winter Night and I Remember Heaven, Of Course. These plays by internationally known playwright, Jean Lenox Toddie, treat the audience to an evening of comedy and drama that celebrates life, love and the tangled relationships of lovers and families. A rocking chair sits center stage in each play. Ten colorful characters range from a middle-age woman sitting in the Florida Everglades with a shot gun across her lap, to a charming male poet who dines on candied locusts and marinated artichoke hearts, to a lovely young mute singing her own soundless song, to a quirky old lady booted out of heaven for bad behavior.

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Genre:
collection One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Round and Round the Mulberry Bush

Jean Lenox Toddie
Two one-act plays by internationally known playwright Jean Lenox Toddie celebrating with poignancy and humor the struggle of the heart to find its way home. Eleven colorful characters range in age from a sassy teen, to a middle-aged professor, to an old woman waiting for a bus. What bus? The bus for which we all will wait.

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Plays include Did You Hear the Owl Last Night? And Once Again in Glyn Kerrie.

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Genre:
two one act comedies

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Male:  4            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Scent Of Honeysuckle, A

Synopsis:
This is a tale of three women and the tie that binds them: the irritating tie that rubs; the fragile tie that's knotted, broken and knotted again; the lasting tie that triumphs over age and death . . . the tie between mothers and daughters. Old Jess, her exasperated daughter and the laughing young mother she remembers struggle for independence in a radiant play about continuity of caring. Published with A Little Something for the Ducks

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama One Act

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Silver Apples Of The Moon, The

Synopsis:
The story of a college student from a rose-scented home hi the east who is sitting in a ten-foot circle in the searing sun of a high western desert. Why is the Indian elder sitting with her through hot days and cold nights? For what are they waiting? And who is the Indian woman warning her to return to the college town where her mother is spraying roses and her father, a professor, is writing poetry in the silver light of the moon. And what of her brother, restless in a home where you don't get desert unless you have a doctorate? And her grown sister still sticking chewing gum behind her headboard? Why do their letters call her home? This play, haunting and humorous, celebrates life, family love and the wisdom myths of native Americans. The prize-winning playwright's work has been performed on four continents

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Genre:
drama of myth and magic One Act

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Tell Me Another Story, Sing Me Another Song

Synopsis:
This witty look at mother daughter relationships is a light hearted exploration of irritations and misunderstandings that build walls between a woman and her female off spring-- and the love and compassion that destroys these walls. The crisis and humor of childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age are evoked in a celebration of dissonance and the harmony between mothers and daughters. With the light touch of fantasy, it touches some of our deepest emotions.

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Samuel French Inc, New York,    -

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One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Those Singing Sunday Mornings

Synopsis:
An artist who dwells in a tree house is heading out to play poker in Peru with a monkey on her shoulder. Her niece wants to drop out of high school and see the world with her. Are they looking for adventure or running away? Will dipping their toes in lotus ponds in Japan, eating raw eggs in the hills of Eastern Europe and seeking the wee wild ones who dance in the woods or Ireland at the full moon heal these hearts? Laughter, tears and unanswered questions fill the backpacks of these wanderers - if they are allowed to leave.

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Genre:
Comic drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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White Room Of My Remembering

Synopsis:
This poignant play by the author of Tell Me Another Story, Sing Me a Song; A Little Something for the Ducks; A Scent of Honeysuckle and A Bag of Green Apples is the story of two women, Margaret and Jessie, who have come to Jessie's childhood home to put it up for sale. While Margaret goes to find a real estate agent, Jessie has conversations with herself as a girl and with her dead father and her mother.

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Samuel French Inc, New York,    -

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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