The Good Girl Is Gone

Available from Dramatic Publishing

All hell breaks loose in the Bender household when Mama runs off with that no-good loser Wayne Hargrove. Papa just can't believe she's gone, but Ginny sees Mama everywhere. Lulu copes as best she can, but the past keeps intruding on the present, and threatens to derail the good thing she's finally got going with the doctor who treated her sister. "Sometimes Love just explodes on you," Lulu muses. "Like a firecracker under the hood of a car. Lots of light and heat. And a big mess."

A dark comedy about bleary-eyed love.

Production History

• Staged reading, NJ Rep, October 7, 2002
• Staged reading, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Dec. 8-9, 2001
• Staged reading, Shenandoah International Playwrights Retreat,  August 10, 2001
• Reading, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Oct. 2, 2000
• Reading, Charter Theater, Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2001

Honors

• Developed at Shenandoah International Playwrights Retreat 2001
• Finalist, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference 2000

Production Requirements

• For three women and two men.
• Unit set.
• Running time: one hour, forty minutes