The Gift
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Samples, Charlotte (American playwright, 19__-____), “The Gift,”
a 10-minute _____ in English, set in _____, 1997,
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© 1997 by Charlotte Samples;
• in Charlotte Samples’s The Gift (Torrance, California, U.S.A.: The Author, 1997);
• script/rights available from Charlotte Samples, _____, Torrance, California, U.S.A., e-mail _____, http://___, telephone ___-___-____, fax ___-___-____.
• or, script/rights available from Charlotte Samples, c/o Jill Forbath, Artistic Director, West Coast Ten-Minute Play Contest, P.O. Box 18438, Irvine, California 92623-8438, U.S.A., e-mail jillkat@employees.org.
• Cited by NEricksn@aol.com, athenews-request@lists.wayne.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/athe.
• Also, cited by Calactors.com, http://www.calactors.com/wc10festival.htm, accessed September 5, 2008.
Dramatis Personae
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Synopsis
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Comment
• “First Place, 1997.”—Six at Eight Winners, http://www.employees.org, accessed April 9, 2003.
• First Place, 7th Annual West Coast Ten-Minute Play Contest Winner, 1997.–Calactors.com.
• Research could include Charlotte Samples’ full-length Darlin’, presented by Musefire productions, 2438 18th Street, NW, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., telephone 202-270-6990, http://www.musefire.org, through April 14, 2007, at the District of Columbia Arts Center. This award-winning play, written by Playwright Charlotte Samples, chronicles the dreams and hopes of a strong-willed 11-year-old girl, Loyce.—http://www.capitalcommunitynews.com/publications/hillrag/2007_April/14-23_RAG_0407.pdf, accessed September 6, 2008. Darlin’ tells of the “anticipated arrival of a government photographer to an "Okie" migrant worker camp in the midst of the Great Depression brings forth a little girl's dream of having her picture taken in her deceased mother's one good, store-bought dress.”—Chicago Her-rah! - International Centre for Women Playwrights & Around the Coyote, http://www.netspace.org/~icwp/chicago/chicagoprintA.html, accessed September 6, 2008.
Themes
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