Beneath the Moon

Full-Lengths

By: Eugene Shear
Cast: 3 M, 4 F, 1 flexible
Performance Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 69 pgs.

COMEDY. All three of Mrs. Davis’ children have become recently engaged and arrive at her home to introduce their fiancés to their mother for the first time. When the fiancés finally meet their future mother-in-law, they are shocked to find out Mrs. Davis thinks she is Queen Elizabeth I, wears a Tudor gown complete with an Elizabethan collar, and carries around a pet guinea pig named Lord Halifax. Then, to top off the madness, the fiancés discover that Mrs. Davis has offered up a one-million-dollar dowry, but they must first prove themselves worthy by either performing a great act of caring or a great act of daring. Winner, F. Gary Newton Playwright Award, 2006.

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Eugene Shear is an award-winning playwright with acting and production experience. He draws on his profession of a psychiatric social worker to humorous effect in his comedies. Mr. Shear lives in Concord, NH, with his wife, Deborah, and two cats, Henry and Alice.