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Charlie Evans, a pool shark down on his luck in the bedroom as well as in the pool hall, has two days to pay off a $3,000 debt, or have his legs broken by Bulldog, a psychotic debt collector who also happens to be having an affair with Charlie’s wife, Helen. In his desperation to recover both the money and his self-esteem, Charlie gets involved in a series of hustles, pushing the tension to a breathtaking climax.
The complicated narrative of the play allows French to build a convincing case for Charlie’s humanity—how his actions, devious, frantic and perplexed as they are, spring directly from his need to survive his pathetic circumstance and to maintain his dignity as a survivor. Tired, suspicious, despairing, knowing that the game is no good for him and yet knowing no other game, Charlie plunges into a situation which may mean disaster or salvation, because in Charlie’s world of cliché and stereotype, everything comes down to betting on the right thing at the right time.
Cast of two women and eight men.
“A definite winner that will be around for a long time.”
— Ottawa Citizen
“French’s glimpse of life in one Canadian underworld is funny, vigorous, and highly theatrical.” —Globe & Mail
“One Crack Out is a large-boned, daring work, reflecting an astute craftsmanship … the results are almost explosively stirring.” —Toronto Star
96 Pages
8.5in * 216mm * 5.5in * 140mm * 0.3125in8mm
120gr
4.25oz
March 15, 2003
Vancouver
CA
9780889224889
9781772010008 – EPUB
9781772010015 – Kindle
9780889229693 – EPUB
9781772010022 – PDF
eng
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