The Contest
Subtitle: A Play by Shirley Lauro
Publisher: Applause Books; Applause
Published: May 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781557833686
Subjects: Performing Arts; Plays; Plays / Drama; American; Theater - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Acting & Auditioning
Description: "A naturalistic family comedy/drama centering on a shy young adolescent, Bevvie Sue, caught in the web of her hilarious but powerful mother's fantasies of gaining fame and fortune through compulsive contest entries, her beloved immigrant father's broken dreams and ambitions, and her rich judgmental relatives.

Set in a small midwestern city in the middle of World War II, the story sweeps through a year in this American Jewish family's life, as Bevvie Sue struggles to disentangle herself and emerge as her own person: a young woman, eager for life, on her way to finding her own place in the sun."--BOOK JACKET.