Sign-In
Cart
Evelyn in Purgatory: a play in two acts
Paperback
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN13: 9798283048208
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 8 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 8 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
New York City, 2008. When a complaint is filed against one of the 70,000 instructors in America's largest public school system, the teacher reports to a Reassignment Center, one of a series of empty offices in the Department of Education Building. There, they sit and wait for their case to be reviewed. Usually for months. Sometimes for over a year.
A claim of improper behavior by a failing student lands Evelyn Reid in the rubber room, where she encounters a group of teachers- some guilty of an offense, some not- who have long-since given up any hope of returning to a classroom. Over the course of a school year, these colleagues form an unlikely alliance, reminding each other of forgotten passions, emerging to face life outside in unexpected new directions. They also learn French and workshop a screenplay.
Topher Payne's play takes us down the rabbit hole to an absurd and perplexing world: the bureaucratic nightmare encountered by American public school educators.
The Breakfast Club for teachers... an uncommonly smart and restrained commentary on the public education system.
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
The script mixes sharp humor and close character observations with drama that darkens along the way. There's an undertow of unease, not unlike a Twilight Zone episode.
BOWLING GREEN INDEPENDENT
A remarkably well-constructed and very funny dramatic comedy... we're kept constantly curious about each character.
ARTS ATL
I love how these characters are introduced, how they change before our eyes (through an unlayering of truth and falsehood rather than through arbitrary plot contrivances.) I love how they surprise, how they make me laugh and move me, how they represent a broad spectrum of teachers and styles and ambitions. I loved every minute.
ATLANTA THEATRE BUZZ
Topher Payne's play takes us down the rabbit hole to an absurd and perplexing world: the bureaucratic nightmare encountered by American public school educators.
The Breakfast Club for teachers... an uncommonly smart and restrained commentary on the public education system.
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
The script mixes sharp humor and close character observations with drama that darkens along the way. There's an undertow of unease, not unlike a Twilight Zone episode.
BOWLING GREEN INDEPENDENT
A remarkably well-constructed and very funny dramatic comedy... we're kept constantly curious about each character.
ARTS ATL
I love how these characters are introduced, how they change before our eyes (through an unlayering of truth and falsehood rather than through arbitrary plot contrivances.) I love how they surprise, how they make me laugh and move me, how they represent a broad spectrum of teachers and styles and ambitions. I loved every minute.
ATLANTA THEATRE BUZZ
Also from
Payne, Topher
Also in
Plays
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
From $5.99
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Miller, Arthur
Paperback
$14.25
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Sophocles
Euripides
Aeschylus
Paperback
$23.75
The Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Kaufman, Moises
Fondakowski, Leigh
Pierotti, Greg
Paperback
$16.15
FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus (The Revised 1831 Edition - Wisehouse Classics)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paperback
$11.88
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
McFarlane, James
Arup, Jens
Ibsen, Henrik
Paperback
$9.44
A Doll's House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People
Ibsen, Henrik
Paperback
$11.40
KJV, Pew Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition (Large Print Edition)
Thomas Nelson
Hardcover
$23.74
Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard
Chekhov, Anton
Hingley, Ronald
Paperback
$8.49
Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts: The Long Christmas Dinner, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha
Wilder, Thornton
Paperback
$17.99