MOON OVER THE BREWERY

by Bruce Graham, opened on 30 April.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bruce Graham’s plays include BURKIE, EARLY ONE EVENING AT THE RAINBOW BAR & GRILL, MINOR DEMONS, BELMONT AVENUE SOCIAL CLUB, THE CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE STAKES and CHEAP SENTIMENT. His play COYOTE ON A FENCE won the 1998 Rosenthal Prize and received two Drama Desk nominations in its off-Broadway run. Mr. Graham's film credits include DUNSTON CHECKS IN, ANASTASIA and STEAL THIS MOVIE. Television movie credits include HUNT FOR THE UNICORN KILLER, THE CHRISTMAS SECRET, A RING OF ENDLESS LIGHT (2003 Humanitas Award Winner - Best Children's Teleplay) and RIGHT ON TRACK. He has won several awards from the Pew Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the Princess Grace Foundation, and he recently took the grand prize of the 2006 "Set in Philadelphia" Screenwriting Competition presented by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. Graham currently teaches playwriting and film courses at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. 

ABOUT THE PLAY

This touching, yet funny play is set in a Pennsylvania coal town. Single mom, Miriam Waslyk, works as a waitress, but it is her painting that really fulfils her. She would like some male companionship, but, so far, her precocious teen-aged daughter, Amanda, has driven away anyone that might come between her and her mother, leaving Miriam torn between love for her daughter and happiness with a good man. Growing up as an only child has been difficult for Amanda, and now she has to deal with her mom’s new boyfriend, Warren Zimmerman, a kind and understanding local postman.  At such critical times, Amanda always talks to her imaginary friend Randolph, who appears only to her (and the audience), and helps Amanda chase away her mother’s suitors.  But this time, Amanda and Randolph may have met their match in the clever Warren who is surprisingly resourceful.