Shay

by Anne Commire, Tresa Hughes Marge Redmond, playwright, starring

$450 · Offered by Royal Books

New York: Producing Managers Company, 1974. Draft script for the 1978 play. Copy belonging to actress Tresa Hughes, with her substantive annotations throughout.Shay is in the late years of parenthood, making no progress with being an adult. Saddled with a husband, son, and daughter, she is unable to graduate to the responsibilities before her. To fend off the onslaught of reality, she stays in a stressed, performative state, compulsively telling jokes

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