MARLA'S DEVOTION by Linda Eisenstein

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55 minutes

2F

20's - 40's

Marla's Devotion 2w Perennial student Marla and her partner Joey have hit a bad patch. Feeling neglected and in need of personal growth, Marla begins an intense Buddhist meditation practice that soon has her half-living on her knees -- leading to comic uproar. An off-beat comedy about relationships -- and the exquisite difficulty of making changes that actually change anything. 2w (20's-30's). One hour. A nearly bare stage, indicating Marla and Joey's apartment in a hectic city.

Joey (Elizabeth Wood) & Marla (Denise Astorino). Photo: Wild Plum, Cleveland, OH

Winner, Festival Prize, 1997 All-England Theatre Festival (Hull) Third Prize, 1996 Ohio Theatre Alliance Playwriting Competition Nominee, Outstanding One Act Play, 98-99 Theatre Arts Guild Awards, Omaha Published in Lodestar Quarterly

Featured in: The Best Stage Scenes 1997 (Smith & Kraus) The Best Women's Stage Monologues 1997 (Smith & Kraus) Scenes by Women for Women (Heinemann)

"Funny, heart-wrenching, acerbic, MARLA'S DEVOTION is the raw underbelly of lesbian life in the nineties. Read it, live it, lay prostrate before it." - Anne Harris, Founder/Artistic Director, Lesbian Exchange for New Drama

• Productions: Ten Foot Theatre Company (Hull, England); New Visions Productions (Athens, GA); Fresh Fruit Festival (NYC); SNAP! (Omaha, NE); Wesleyan College (GA); Muse of Fire (NYC); Luna Sea Women's Performance Project (San Francisco); HAG Theatre (Buffalo); FronteraFest (Austin, TX); Femmiliar Faces (CT); Wild Plum (Cleveland); Baldwin-Wallace College (OH); U. of Arizona.
• Readings/workshops: Cleveland Play House; Cleveland State University; Ohio Theatre Alliance Conference; Waterfront Playhouse, Key West Theatre Festival (FL); Red Hen Productions (Cleveland); Emerging Women Playwright Series, The Theatre Conspiracy (Washington, D.C.); South Australian Writers' Theatre (Adelaide, AU)

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