The Third Story
Opening Night: February 3, 2009
Closing: February 27, 2009
Theater: Lucille Lortel Theatre
The Third Story is composed of 3 interconnected stories: a realistic tale of a mother and son screenwriting team in the 1940’s, a B-movie about the uneasy alliance between a mob queen and a frosty lady scientist, and a Russian fairy tale in which a painfully shy Princess makes a dark pact with a mercurial old witch.
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February 3, 2009
Peg, a bourbon-steeped, whiskey-voiced screenwriter who finds herself on the rocks in Omaha in 1949, says she used to be MGM’s go-to gal for script editing. But if Peg (played by the ever commanding Kathleen Turner) is feeling underemployed, then why, oh why, doesn’t she take a blue pencil to the play in which she appears?
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