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Synopsis

Three Tall Women takes place in the bedroom of a sick and forgetful old woman (A). In the first act she is cared for by a middle-aged companion (B) and visited by a young woman (C) sent by the lawyer to settle some financial affairs. A is imperious and acerbic, which B is used to deal and manages effectively. However, C is impatient and quick to rise to A’s jibes. During their discussion of A's life, they muse on love, family relationships, sex, pain, and the body’s inevitable decline. After A suffers a stroke that leaves her on the edge of death, her body is replaced by an identical mannequin of A in the bed. Away from the bed, she joins B and C in discussing events in their mutual life and how one matured into the other. For they are, in fact, all the same woman--"everywoman”--at different stages of her life.

Show Information

Category
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Number of Acts
2
First Produced
1991
Genres
Drama, Dark Comedy
Settings
Contemporary, Unit/Single Set
Time & Place
A grand bedroom, Present Day
Cast Size
small
Ideal For
Mostly Female Cast, Professional Theatre, Regional Theatre, Small Cast, Includes Elderly, Mature Adult, Adult, Young Adult Characters

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Plot

Characters

Name Part Size Gender Vocal Part

A

Lead

Female

Spoken

B

Lead

Female

Spoken

C

Lead

Female

Spoken

The Boy

Featured

Male

Silent

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Guide Written By:

Alexandra Appleton

Alexandra Appleton

Writer, editor and theatre researcher