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Santa Claus Just Left Town is a comedy about a man trying to write a play about Christmas that will please everyone. Bill Munroe is a playwright who is not the perfect choice to write a Christmas play for a community theater. His working title is "Another Miserable Christmas "-and it reflects his cynical view on life and the holidays. His wife, Cindy, and their friends are not slow to give advice-and they insist on seeing themselves in the play's characters. There are multiple relations being explored-both in "reality" and in "the play" - which leads everyone to learn something about themselves-and about the holidays. Take the enigmatic Johnny Caruso, Bill's brother-in-law. He owns a company that provides happiness. He is invited to the house to meet Sara Moore, Bill and Cindy's neighbor. In "reality" they don't seem to hit it off, but, in "the play" they find that they can help each other. In "the play," Johnny keeps popping up in a variety of roles-from a street Santa Claus collecting money, to a toy-store clerk, to a chef at a diner. Johnny is the glue that holds both aspects of the play together. Then there's Steve Stevenson, the director, who fights with Bill about everything - but they learn to work together, as "magic makers." In the meantime, Steve's girlfriend, Karen, has a long-standing, unrequited crush on Bill. Karen learns what's important in life from Johnny Caruso. Santa Claus Just Left Town is a general-audience play: It's funny, it's uplifting - but with a bit of an edge to it that has a literate appeal.
About the Author: Bernard Mendillo writes plays (as well as novels, memoirs and newspaper columns). Mendillo has had 18 productions of 11 full-length plays-two of them off-off-Broadway; and two others have received off-off-Broadway staged readings. He's been produced regionally in Massachusetts, upstate New York and Los Angeles. His new play-The Nickel Jar-is a serious comedy about a man desperately trying to save his marriage and his family. He's written two dramas based on classic works: A House that God Hates-a modern version of Aeschylus' Agamemnon; and Agnes in Camelot-a modern retelling of the Arthurian legend. His wildly dark comedy Mates won the Wykeham Rise National Playwrighting Contest and was produced off-off-Broadway. Eventually, this led to the Mates Trilogy-with all three plays being presented at the Little Theater in Binghamton, NY. The second play of the trilogy, Mates in Paradise, was also produced at the Orpheum Repertory, in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Mendillo's comedy of his generation, The Last Baby Boomer, received a staged reading by the New England Repertory Company, as part of its Festival of New Plays; it was produced off-off-Broadway at the Impact Theater; and it received an off-off-Broadway reading at New Perspectives. Mendillo was playwright-in-residence for the Orpheum Repertory Company in Massachusetts. He was a founding board member of the New England Repertory Company and was its playwright-in-residence. Mendillo has independently published two novels: Dancing Naked with the Devil and Marvin Piersoll and three memoirs: Football, Bella in America and Nuns! His novel Marvin Piersoll won the fiction category in the 2011 New York Book Festival Mendillo also has extensive journalism experience; he's written more than 600 works of short fiction and feature articles and humor columns for the Providence Journal, Canton Journal, and Warwick Beacon. Mendillo grew up in Rhode Island; he studied writing at Brown University-where he earned a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Creative Writing/Playwrighting. Mendillo lives in Canton, Massachusetts.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781493564491
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 150
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 227 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1493564498
  • Publisher Date: 21 Nov 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 133 mm


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