Penny Penniworth: A Story of Great Good Fortune
By Chris Weikel.
Product Code: PK6000
Full-length Play
Cast size: 2m., 2w.
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Synopsis
Penny Penniworth is a labyrinthine romp through 19th-century English literature as presented by a severely short-staffed theatre troupe with Royal Shakespeare Company pretensions that decides to produce a "lost" Dickens epic. The eponymous Penny, a down-on-her-luck Dickensian waif, deprived of her fortune and her country estate by the untimely death of her hapless father (her father's name is actually Hapless, as it happens), must go off to London and navigate her way among unscrupulous suitors, incorrigible urchins and anonymous benefactors. After throwing herself on the mercy of the family solicitor, Mr. Bunting (of the firm Bunting, Bunting and Swagg, naturally), Penny and her mother are sent to live with the slightly deranged Miss Havasnort to cater to her every whim. Penny soon becomes prey to the roguish Rupert Stryfe, heir to the House of Stryfe. What is an innocent young girl to do? The play is a tour de force for four actors who portray a cavalcade of comic characters in a gender-bending tale of true love thwarted, wealth, deception, abduction and true love regained.
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code PK6000
- Minimum Cast Size 4
- Pages of Dialogue 52
- Min. Royalty Rate $90.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 75 min
- Staging Unit set.
Categories
- ISBN(13) 9781583428139
Media Reviews
"Chris Weikel … knows that Dickens is practically his own parody; his story about a young maid who loses love and then, through a preposterously circuitous journey, finds it again is exaggerated only ever so slightly from what Dickens might have written … [Penny Penniworth] deserves to become a staple." -The New York Times"Clever … witty … Chris Weikel lampoons British accents and famous literary characters with expertise." -The Huffington Post
"Sharp, fast and funny." -New York Post