Spring Drama
"It's many plays in one—a love story of the utmost restraint, an unbiased portrayal of a lover's triangle, a portrait of a seamless working partnership and a meditation on the act of creation. All that rolls out in about ninety minutes without a misplaced word or a surplus syllable." —Palm Beach Daily News
"Tantalizing, understated and lovely. This engrossing, old-fashioned play is about the drama of writing—and typing—and creativity and love. People who care about semi-colons (and you know who you are), this show is for you…[An] extraordinary marriage between fiction and theater." —Philadelphia Inquirer.
Novelist Franklin Woolsey dies mid-sentence, but his secretary Myra continues to take dictation.
Attacked by skeptics, the press and Woolsey's jealous widow, Myra sets out to prove she is more than just an artful forger.
Is she trying to steal Woolsey's legacy now that she cannot have his love, or might she truly possess a gift the world can't understand?
Ghost-Writer is loosely based on Theodora Bosanquet, who was secretary to Henry James from 1907 until his death in 1916. She went on to write her own literary histories after that, but certainly not in the voice of her former employer.
Kristi Ann Jacobson and Ruth Ann Saunders co-direct this nostalgic, slow-burn love story.
This show will have two casts.
Gramophone Cast
Performing March 14, 16, 22, 28 & 30
Myra: Merissa Ekman
Franklin Woolsey: Carmen Pinto
Vivian Woolsey: Amanda Rae Gutsell
Foxtrot Cast
Performing March 15, 21, 23 & 29
Myra: Ruth Bookwalter
Franklin Woolsey: James Evans
Vivian Woolsey: Ashley Duffey
Show Sponsor
"Ghost-Writer" is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC,
servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection (www.dramatists.com)