cover photo by Jeremy Hogan
this collection contains three full-length plays:
STEEPLE JACK
THE PEER PANEL
THE MISADVENTURES OF CYNTHIA M
STEEPLE JACK:
"Like a well-cut diamond with
many shining facets, playwright Dennis J Reardon has given theater audiences a
quality gem in STEEPLE JACK. Set in rural Kansas, STEEPLE JACK is about bare
bones existence: life and death, youth and maturity, males and females, good and
evil, the relationships that hold life together and the need for love in the
face of grief...a richly textured work, peopled with equally textured characters
and dialogue...the mystic Steeple Jack conveys a sympathetic personality that
is, despite his tramp-like appearance, otherworldly and eerily distant without
seeming like something born of monster movies."
The Bloomington Herald-Times
premiered at The Bloomington Playwrights Project, IN
4 M, 2 F
THE PEER PANEL:
"Funny and incisive, THE PEER
PANEL shapes a meditation on the future of the American theater into an
absorbing, funny, and gracefully structured play...THE PEER PANEL evades its
potential for caricature, thanks largely to Reardon's uncanny command of each
character's voice...
But THE PEER PANEL, while rooted in its characters' preoccupations, isn't just
about theater. It's also about the foundations of personal aesthetic
preferences, about the ways in which culture and ideology and prejudice
influence what we like—and how differences in taste can obstruct
interpersonal connections. Sort of like Yasmina Reza's ART, only without the
tedium."
The Bloomington Herald-Times
premiered at Indiana University
3 M, 3 F
THE MISADVENTURES OF CYNTHIA M: 4+M, 2+F
Plays by Dennis J Reardon
I S B N: 0-88145-199-1
$19.95