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Delightful Romantic Comedy
Acclaimed Across the Nation!
by Jan Henson Dow & Robert Schroeder
Winner of NBC New Voices Award
Winner of Theatre Americana National
Playwriting Competition
"Exceptional . . . a first rate play." -- Athens Daily News, GA
"Charming, delightful . . . engrossing." -- Danville Advocate, KY
"Joy . . . at the WPA" -- Show Business, NYC
"A heartfelt mix of comedy, drama, and nostalgia . . . treats its characters with genuine warmth, understanding and humor." -- Royal Oak Tribune, MI
"Spend two blissful hours in a time when young love was innocent, people were sensitive to one another, and families stuck together." -- Sheboygan Press, WI
"A gem . . . wonderful comic moments . . . wistful pathos and sweetness . . . one of the happiest experiences of recent history." -- Pasadena Star News, CA
That Madcap Moon is a delightful romantic comedy -- farcical, nostalgic, and warmly affecting. The four love stories are developed with humor, human truth, and a genuine sensibility. The play is set in 1945 -- on the day the war in Europe had ended -- in the Sulfur Spring Inn, a guesthouse in a small town in Kentucky.
Innkeeper Sarah caters in her own eccentric manner to the families of soldiers being treated at a nearby Army mental hospital. She is married to, but separated from, hot-tempered Evan. Their daughter Jenny, 14, is the object of a crush harbored by Henry Clay, 12. But Jenny, too, has her first crush -- on cosmopolitan Sgt. Keene, 37, stationed at the hospital and living at the inn.
Jenny's sister, May Anne, finds that her boyfriend, Cpl. Tom Young, is about to be sent overseas, and urgently wants t marry before he is shipped out. Sarah desperately tries to stall the wedding, while joining in the attempts to keep Evan unaware of Tom's plans. Hilarious farcical mischief ensues.
The play is sensitively true to its time. Its humor derives from character, and from the rock-solid convictions of the period.
(6 m. (including one boy), 3 f., single set)
