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Sandy and the Weird Sisters • The Play

Sandy and the Weird Sisters • The Play

by J.D. Newman

Growing up, making choices, being responsible for yourself and the choices we all make might seem everyday to some, but for 12-year-old Sandy, it is a new and liberating experience.

Sandy has grown up under the influence of her widower, rugby-coach father and her athletic older sister Roxie. When her father and sister go to England for a rugby tournament, they leave Sandy in the care of her three great aunts, referred to in family lore as the “weird sisters.” The mysterious Weird Sisters have not been seen in years; or so Dad says. Each of the aunts espouses a different faith — Catholicism, Mormonism, and Unitarianism — and yet they respect and support each others’ practice, while Sandy views them as the outside seeker of truth she truly is. Sandy enrolls in a literature course, dance classes, and winds up in a community musical production, abandoning the girls’ soccer team with which she is supposed to be playing. During her three weeks with her aunts, and never having attended any religious services before, she takes part in services and activities at each of her aunts’ churches, finding things that she admires as well as things that confuse her. Her identity of self is to be forged during these three weeks — striking while the metal is hot, so to speak — an identity that she will take the remainder of her life to fashion and finish.

PLAY DETAILS

  • Characters
    • (minimum 2 girls, 4 women, 1 man with doubling, more if desired) 
    • SANDY Girl, 12 years old
    • ROXIE HUNTER Girl, 14 years old
    • REX HUNTER Man, at least in his mid-30s, may be older
    • AUNT MARY Woman, 50s to 70s
    • AUNT CLAIR Woman, 50s to 70s
    • AUNT LILY Woman, 50s to 70s
    • STORE CLERK Male or Female, any age
    • MEGAN LAMB Girl, 12-14 years old
    • SISTER LIBBY Woman, at least in her 20s, may be older
    • MRS. CAVENDISH Woman, 50s to 70s
    • ATTENDANT (OF DRIVE-IN) Male or Female, any age
    • DIRECTOR (OF THE MUSIC MAN) Male or Female, at least 20s, may be older
    • FATHER JOSEPH Male, at least 30s
    • SOCCER COACH Male or Female, at least 20s, may be older
  • 1970s Costumes
  • Simple Settings
  • Order#3253

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PERUSAL MATERIALS

PURCHASE REHEARSAL MATERIALS:

(Any PDF purchased will be emailed to your email address — if you need to provide that to us (not the one on your PayPal account?), email us. CDs will be mailed to a snail mail address. Do not purchase rehearsal materials or pay for royalties until you have performance clearance.)

    • Script in PDF format  — Order#3253a : $20.00 (from which you will be authorized to copy for your production)



    • First Performance Amateur/Educational Royalty — Order #3253d : $60.00




    • Second Performance Amateur/Educational Royalty — Order #3253e : $50.00




  • Professional Royalties will be quoted upon application
  • Performance License Application: No production rights can be granted until this application is filled out and sent to us. This is a filler form that after you click “SUBMIT” will send directly to our email address. Response averages 2-3 business days.



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PRODUCTIONS

  • Open Eye Theatre — Margaretville NY — Summer 2018

BILLING CREDITS

The following is how the credits should read in all programs, posters, fliers, handbills and other promotional advertising for the show:

Sandy and the Weird Sisters
adapted from his novel

by
J.D. Newman

NOTE: The names of the Playwright(s), Composer, Lyricist, and Bookwriter shall be equal in size, type, coloring, boldness, and prominence. No billing shall appear in type larger or more prominent than the billing to the Authors except for the title of the play. (In a press release all type, will of course, be the same size.)

ALSO:

THIS NOTICE MUST APPEAR IN ALL PROGRAMS, ON ALL POSTERS AND PUBLICITY MATERIALS AND INTERNET ADVERTISING/WEBPAGES FOR THE PLAY:
“Sandy and the Weird Sisters is presented through special arrangement with Leicester Bay Theatricals.  All authorized materials are also supplied by LBT, www.leicesterbaytheatricals.com”

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