Gene Tierney’s Hat

Other Plays by Harlene Goodrich

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Goodrich, Harlene (American playwright, 19__-____), “Gene Tierney’s Hat,”

a 10-minute drama in English, set in the dining room of the Sunset Manor retirement home, U.S.A., 1998,

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• in Harlene Goodrich’s Gene Tierney’s Hat (Seal Beach, California, U.S.A.: The Author, 1998);

• script/rights available from Harlene Goodrich through The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwwrights, 7510 Sunset Boulevard #1050, Los Angeles, California 90046, U.S.A., HotLine 323-957-4752;

• contact Harlene Goodrich via e-mail info@laplaywrights.org.

Dramatis Personae

Clifford (m), __, _____; Bernice (f), __, _____.

Synopsis

A couple has “a relatively subdued but pointed, secrets-revealing conversation in the dining room.”—Too Little in Camino Real's Brief '6 at 8' - Los Angeles Times, http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jun/19/entertainment/ca-61374, September 5, 2008.

Comment

• Produced in Six at Eight, spotlighting the three winners of of the West Coast Ten-Minute Play Contest, now in its fifth year at the Camino Real Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano, California, U.S.A.

• “Harlene Goodrich of Seal Beach, the first-place winner for “Gene Tierney’s Hat,” could make us feel more attached to Clifford (Tony Grande) and Bernice (Tricia Jordan-LaRue), a couple having a relatively subdued but pointed, secrets-revealing conversation in the dining room of the Sunset Manor retirement home. It’s clear Goodrich is examining the quality of the couple’s relationship, especially its shades of regret, loss and anger, but the duo is too oblique and strangely impersonal. Abi Estrin’s direction and the actors’ performances are measured but lack the depth to find the intimacy that may be hiding in Goodrich’s script.”—Too Little.

• First Place, 7th Annual West Coast Ten-Minute Play Contest Winner, 1998.”—Calactors.com, http://www.calactors.com/wc10festival.htm, accessed September 5, 2008.

• “Harlene Goodrich lives in Seal Beach, California with her husband, Michael. She received her Master’s Degree in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California, where she received three short play productions, and studied with the late playwright Jerome Lawrence, author of Inherit the Wind. Ms. Goodrich’s three short plays, 'Picture Perfect,' 'Honk If You Love the Navy,' and 'Sometimes a Cigar . . . ', and her full-length play, Miracles, 7:30 Tuesday, have been produced Off-Off Broadway by Love Creek Productions. Her full-length play, Light Under the Door, won Colleagues Theatre Company’s (NY) full-length play competition. Her plays have also been produced in festivals in California, Delaware, Iowa, and Virginia. Ms. Goodrich is a member of Playwrights Voice Ensemble (PVE) and the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (ALAP).”—Outside the Box: Thirtieth Series - Google Book Search, accessed September 5, 2008.

Themes

anger, loss, regret.