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The Glamour House
Author(s): Lydia Stryk
THE STORY: It is 1947. In the glamorous world of Trudi Stein’s dress shop on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, everything is cloaked in silence—until the arrival of an enigmatic new salesgirl, Esther Bayer, a young immigrant from Germany, whose very presence fills the joyless establishment with energy, laughter, and life. What ensues is a mysterious, obsessive relationship that culminates in revelation.
Format: Full Length, Drama
Cast Size: 1M,4W
Character breakdown
Trudi Stein – Owner of The Glamour House
Ester Bayer – The new salesgirl
Rosa Perez – The dress shop alteration-hand
Liselotte Pauschel – A customer of some means
Toy Puccini – A one-handed costomer
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production: Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago, Illinois on Nov. 9th, 2001
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Dramatists Play Service
Production Rights Holder:
Dramatists Play Service
Experience(s) Chronicled: Allegoric or Metaphoric Representations | Reactions to the Holocaust | Other Victims of Nazi Persecution