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Love and Death and Isabella Stewart Gardner
A Romantic Comedy in One-Act
By Jim Dalglish
Three former college roommates are re-united in this romantic comedy about a museum tour gone terribly and hilariously astray.
"Each year at za stroke von midnight on za anniversary of St. Isabellas death... You can hear za moans and groans from deep within zeez werry valls..." - Alex
Characters
William - Man in his late thirties. An artist.
Alyson - Woman in her mid thirties. Rich art gallery owner.
Rafael - Man in his late thirties. Divorced.
Alex - Man in his late thirties. Art scholar. College roommate of William and Rafael.
Setting
Gothic Gallery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Time
Now
Length
45 mins.
Type
Comedy / Gay Romance.
Themes
Artistic expression; selling out; three-way relationships; gay identity; alternative parenting.
Acting Class Scenes
Monolog: Alex’s tirade in the middle of the play
Script Completed
Summer 2001
Production History
Provincetown Theatre Company/Narrowland Arts, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 8/09/01- 9/29/01(Second half of Art Brut.)
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