Suitcase Under The Bed

A large gray cloud floats above the watercolor backdrops of the four short plays that make up the suitcase under the bed not a storm cloud exactly just a patch of worrisome sky that unsettles the sunny days of the many characters dreamed up by the late irish playwright teresa deevy it s a conceit by scenic designer vicki r.

Suitcase under the bed.

Davis there to remind us that despite the mostly calm and polite. Strange birth the most successful of the four is a delicate play about the vicissitudes of love. Whether working class drama or boarding house comedy the four short works in the suitcase under the bed a u s. Only one has been previously produced.

The suitcase under the bed is named for the place where all of her writing was stored for decades prior to the launch of the mint s deevy project another name for this evening of playlets might be three proposals and a break up as these shorts cast an unsentimental eye on the idea of marriage. The suitcase under the bed so named for the place where all of teresa deevy s writing was stored for decades prior to the launch of mint theater company s deevy project featured four short plays three of which were world premieres. The way women make the. The suitcase under the bed completes one of the mint theater company s most ambitious and welcome rescue missions of a playwright whose work deserves wider recognition.

Premiere and three world ones share a common concern. The suitcase under the bed four short plays literally discovered under the playwright s bed by her sister is the fourth in the mint s teresa deevy 1894 1963 series.