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19 Ratings

3.8

Duration
0H 23min
Language
English
Format
Category

Lyric Poetry & Drama

A talkative New Yorker corrals a writer at a cocktail party and forces him to listen to the story of her life. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater.

Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.

Adapted and directed by Arnold Aprill Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg Marge Kotlisky as Bessie Gold Malcolm Rothman as The Writer Additional voices by David Cromer, Steven Trovillion and Jensen Wheeler

Radio Producer: Robert Neuhaus Recording Engineer: Larry Rock

© 2020 L.A. Theatre Works (Audiobook): 9781682661222

Release date

Audiobook: 1 March 2020

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