Laughing Stock (Morey) Book

THE STORY: LAUGHING STOCK is a hilarious backstage farce and genuinely affectionate look into the world of the theatre. When The Playhouse, a rustic New England summer theatre, schedules a repertory season of Dracula, Hamlet and Charley's Aunt, comic mayhem ensues. We follow the well-intentioned but over-matched company from outrageous auditions to ego-driven rehearsals through opening nights gone disastrously awry to the elation of a great play well told and the comic and nostalgic season close. ‚¬¦a summer stock production of Dracula disintegrates into chaos on opening night. Gothic horror becomes high comedy amid misplaced technical cues, forgotten lines, wrong entrances and eccentric acting‚¬¦the large audience howled with glee as they watched the mayhem unfold‚¬¦ - Salt Lake Tribune. LAUGHING STOCK soars as farce‚¬¦ - Salt Lake City Weekly. The delightful thing‚¬¦is that Morey strikes a balance between a depiction of everything that can and usually does go wrong‚¬¦and a genuinely affectionate look at the magic that holds theatre companies together‚¬¦these are all type characters but Morey adeptly deepens and individualizes each one‚¬¦The Dracula section and a rehearsal of Charley's Aunt where the actors improvise being animals at dusk around an African water hole are comic high point‚¬¦ - Event (Salt Lake City). LAUGHING STOCK will indeed have you laughing in your seat if not rolling in the aisles‚¬¦It's hard to imagine anyone whose funny bone wouldn't be tickled by this one‚¬¦it's a hoot‚¬¦it's a blast‚¬¦ - Monadnock Ledger (NH). Scene after scene, beat after beat, LAUGHING STOCK piles on the laughs‚¬¦every single piece crackles with successful wit and abundant humor‚¬¦virtuoso farce‚¬¦ - Keene Sentinel (NH). I cried, I choked, I fell into a coughing fit, I cried some more‚¬¦can't help but love this play. - Nashua Telegraph (NH).