The White Pages is published by Brooklyn Publishers. Click the above button to open a new window and order a perusal copy or performance rights.
About The Play
Comedy. 2 males, 2-4 females. 25 minutes. Unit Set. Appropriate for high school (and perhaps even middle school) and up. Semifinalist in Marshall University's Play Works competition, it premiered at the Attic Theatre in Los Angeles and went on to be produced at Offstage Theatre (Charlottesville, VA), the Golden Players (Golden, BC Canada) and other venues.
". . . very definitely funny" - The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA)
"The high spot of the afternoon . . . was Jon Dorf's manically funny The White Pages . . ." - CVI Weekly (Charlottesville, VA)
"The White Pages . . . is a zany farce with a touch of gentle satire." - Frontiers (Los Angeles, CA)
“Funny and unexpectedly psychotic . . . its premise is undeniably interesting.” Suburban and Wayne Times (suburban Philadelphia, PA)
Synopsis
Robert, a thirtysomething insurance adjuster who works nearby, brings three used classics to Book Traders Book Store to exchange. When he gets in return a book with blank pages, he believes it to be an error. Nancy, the store owner and about Robert's age, supplies him with another book, this one also blank. Even as Robert protests, satisfied and willfully oblivious customers come in to trade for more blank books. Finally, Robert fights back: armed with pens and ultimately a typewriter, he occupies the store and recreates—to the best of his recollection—the classic novels that Nancy and her college-age nephew, Toto, have been disemboweling and replacing with white pages.
Online Playwriting Class Starts on May 21st! I will be teaching a month-long online playwriting class through Writers University beginning on May 21.
Festivals, Festivals, Festivals I am excited to be attending a number of national conferences in the coming months. First up, the International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska in late June, where I'll be teaching a quartet of writing workshops and hanging out at the Playscripts booth!
The Locker Next to Mine Now Available
My new play, The Locker Next to Mine, is now available. It's a full-length drama, though spiked with humor, about teen suicide and dealing with loss. I'm looking for a group to stage the world premiere. Could that be you?
Though the one-act version, available from Playscripts, stands on its own (and is perfect for competition!), this play was always intended to be a full-length composed of three acts: Rumors of Polar Bears, Ursa Major and Northern Lights. Look for the other two plays in the cycle sometime in 2012.
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