Transcription of BY JOHN CARIANI
1 , BY JOHN CARIANI *Third Re--vised Edition* DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE INC. ALMOST, MAINE BY JOHN CARIANI *Third Revised Edition* DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE INC. ,_ ,_ ,_ ---------------------------------------- --------------PS DRAMATISTS PLAY SIEIRVICE, IINC. E TABU HED B MIEMBER OF THE DRAMATJ T UILD G OF THE A TING EU HT F MEMBER ' PLAY THE ENCOURAGEMENT O THE A ERJ A THEATRE 440 P.:uk Av.:nuc South, New York. Y 10016 ww, . CONTENTSF rontmatterBodyBackmatter ALMOST, MAINE is a series of nine amiably absurdist vignettes aboutlove, with a touch of good-natured magic , romantic,unsentimental. A beautifully structured play, with nifty surprise endings(most but not all of them happy). The New York Times Sweet, poignant, and witty. Nearly perfect. ALMOST, MAINE s charm isreal. [It] packs wit, earns its laughs and, like love, surprises you.
2 New York Daily News Mega-hit ALMOST, MAINE lands somewhere between Norman Rockwelland Our Town. Unabashedly unhip. There is no pretense of an edge here the show offers a sweetness and decency that s become rare at the this point, it s a welcome breath of fresh air. New York PostALMOST, MAINEBY JOHN CARIANIALMOST, MAINEC opyright 2007, 2008, 2015, 2018, John CarianiAll Rights ReservedCAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned thatperformance of ALMOST, MAINE is subject to payment of a royalty. It isfully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America,and of all countries covered by the International Copyright Union(including the Dominion of Canada and the rest of the BritishCommonwealth), and of all countries covered by the Pan-AmericanCopyright Convention, the Universal Copyright Convention, the BerneConvention, and of all countries with which the United States has reciprocalcopyright relations.
3 All rights, including without limitationprofessional/amateur stage rights, motion picture, recitation, lecturing,public reading, radio broadcasting, television, video or sound recording, allother forms of mechanical, electronic and digital reproduction, transmissionand distribution, such as CD, DVD, the Internet, private and file-sharingnetworks, information storage and retrieval systems, photocopying, and therights of translation into foreign languages are strictly reserved. Particularemphasis is placed upon the matter of readings, permission for which mustbe secured from the Author s agent in English language stock and amateur stage performance rights in theUnited States, its territories, possessions and Canada for ALMOST, MAINEare controlled exclusively by Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 440 ParkAvenue South, New York, NY 10016.
4 No professional or nonprofessionalperformance of the Play may be given without obtaining in advance thewritten permission of Dramatists Play Service, Inc., and paying the concerning all other rights should be addressed to Bret Adams,Ltd., 448 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. Attn: Bruce NOTEA nyone receiving permission to produce ALMOST, MAINE is required togive credit to the Author as sole and exclusive Author of the Play on thetitle page of all programs distributed in connection with performances of thePlay and in all instances in which the title of the Play appears, includingprinted or digital materials for advertising, publicizing or otherwiseexploiting the Play and/or a production thereof. Please see your productionlicense for font size and typeface advised that there may be additional credits required in all programs andpromotional material.
5 Such language will be listed under the AdditionalBilling section of production licenses. It is the licensee s responsibility toensure any and all required billing is included in the requisite places, per theterms of the NOTE ON SONGS AND RECORDINGSFor performances of copyrighted songs, arrangements or recordingsmentioned in these Plays, the permission of the copyright owner(s) must beobtained. Other songs, arrangements or recordings may be substitutedprovided permission from the copyright owner(s) of such songs,arrangements or recordings is obtained; or songs, arrangements orrecordings in the public domain may be Northern Maine and the people who live thereThe first Off-Broadway revival of ALMOST, MAINE was produced byTransport Group (Jack Cummings III, Artistic Director; Lori Fineman,Executive Director), opening on January 21, 2014.
6 It was directed by JackCummings III; the set design was by Sandra Goldmark; the lighting designwas by R. Lee Kennedy; the costume design was by Kathryn Rohe; thesound design was by Walter Trarbach; the incidental music was composedby Tom Kochan; the production stage manager was Theresa Flanagan. Thecast was as follows:PETE/JIMMY/STEVE/RANDY/DAVE John CarianiGINETTE/SANDRINE/GAYLE/DEENA/HOPE Kelly McAndrewGLORY/WAITRESS/MARVALYN/SHELLY/M ARCI/RHONDA DonnaLynne ChamplinEAST/LENDALL/CHAD/PHIL/MAN Kevin IsolaNote: This production was the first to present the male and female versionsof They Fell in rotating rep. The female version of They Fell premieredat the Tennessee Women s Theater Project (Maryanna Clarke, ArtisticDirector) in , MAINE was originally produced in New York by JackThomas/Bulldog Theatrical and Bruce Payne at the Daryl Roth Theatre,New York City, opening on January 12, 2006.
7 It was directed by GabrielBarre; the set design was by James Youmans; the lighting design was byJeff Croiter; the costume design was by Pamela Scofield; the sound designwas by Tony Smolenski IV and Walter Trarbach; the incidental music wascomposed by Julian Fleisher; the production stage manager was KarynMeek. The cast was as follows:PETE/STEVE/LENDALL/RANDY/MAN Todd CerverisGINETTE/GLORY/WAITRESS/GAYLE/HOP E Finnerty SteevesEAST/JIMMY/CHAD/PHIL/DAVE Justin HaganSANDRINE/MARVALYN/MARCI/RHONDA Miriam ShorThe professional premiere of ALMOST, MAINE was produced by PortlandStage Company (Anita Stewart, Artistic Director; Tami Ramaker, ManagingDirector) in Portland, Maine, opening on October 29, 2004. It was directedby Gabriel Barre; the set design was by James Youmans; the lighting designwas by Tim Hunter; the costume design was by Pamela Scofield; the sounddesign was by Christopher Fitze; the incidental music was composed byJulian Fleisher; the production stage manager was Myles C.
8 Hatch. The castwas as follows:PETE/STEVE/LENDALL/RANDY/MAN Larry NathansonGINETTE/GLORY/GAYLE/HOPE Wendy StetsonEAST/STEVE/CHAD/PHIL/DAVE Justin HaganWOMAN/MARVALYN/MARCI/RHONDA Ibi JankoALMOST, MAINE was developed by the Cape Cod Theatre Project (AndyPolk, Artistic Director) in Reader,After a performance of the Off-Broadway production of Almost, Maine in2006, a friend told me that she was troubled by the behavior of one of themen in the play. In Scene 1 ( Her Heart ), a man, East, unexpectedly kissesa woman, Glory, whom he has just met. He does this three times, even afterGlory asks him to stop. My friend warned me that it seemed that East wasimposing himself on a woman and that his behavior cast a shadow over therest of the defended the scene and myself arguing that I never intended for HerHeart to be a story about a man imposing himself on a woman.
9 In mymind, the scene is a magical story about two people falling in love. Ithought East s actions were perfectly have come to realize that East s actions are in no way justifiable. They reunacceptable, no matter what I intended. And they re not at all in the spiritof Almost, Maine. So I have rewritten Her Heart for this, the ThirdRevised Edition of the play. The scene now tells the story I intended to tell,which is one of two people awakening to love. In the new version, Glory isfalling for East as hard and as fast as East is falling for her. All feelings arecompletely mutual, and Glory and East both act on these feelings not have also edited Scene 8, Seeing the Thing. I removed language thatlabels romance or expressions of love or kindness or tenderness as gendered( , feminine). (Expressing love or kindness or tenderness isn t gender-specific.)
10 It s human.) I also changed the language that Rhonda s friends useto describe her, and I rewrote what happens after Dave unexpectedly kissesRhonda. In the new version of the scene, Rhonda lets Dave know that hisbehavior is inappropriate but she also tells him that she feels for him theway he feels for her. All feelings are mutual as Rhonda and Dave take theirrelationship to the next would like to thank everyone who encouraged me to make these , Maine is better for special thanks go out to Aislinn Frantz, Beth Blickers, Haleh RoshanStilwell, Ibi Janko, Wendy Rich Stetson, Caroline Kinsolving, RebeccaHarris, Sophie DeBruijn, Casey Landman, Kelly McAndrew, and DonnaLynne Champlin for reading the new versions of the scenes and guiding meas I rewrote ,John CarianiJanuary 2018 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSIt takes more people than I ever imagined to make a play.
