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Star Bright by Robert A. Eiland ISBN #1933159979 Cast
Synopsis Set in the birth clinic of a small Southern hospital, the ceiling of which is a magical starlit sky, Star Bright is a “dramedy” centering around the attempt of a troubled married couple to adopt a baby from a youthful birth mother whose adoption decision is not looked kindly upon by all members of her family—or by her former boyfriend, the father of the child. The aspiring adoptive mother is a B-movie actress with a cult following that includes one of the clinic nurses, who is also an aspiring screenwriter. We follow this story in parallel with that of another pregnant woman in the same hospital who is waiting for her characteristically unreliable partner to show, and who has personal challenges of her own. Popping in and out of the action is a mysterious little girl who can only be seen by three of the other characters, and who seems to know more than she should about nuclear fusion. The Setting The Pediatric Ward at the Beauville Medical Clinic somewhere in the Southeastern U.S. We see a waiting room furnished with several chairs, a couch and a side table or two. The prints on the walls are mostly brightly colored pieces that would appeal to children, and have various family togetherness themes. One however is of a beautiful mountain and ocean scene in Acadia National Park. A nursing station desk separates this area from Birthing Room 1. Birthing Room 1 is a simple curtain setup, and can be opened and closed from onstage or offstage. The curtain is drawn now. Behind and above the clinic is a starlit sky, giving the Magritte-like impression that the action is both inside a building as well as under the heavens. Author Biography BUZZ: JAC Playwright Robert Eiland Featured in the Harvard Post |
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If you like this play, have you seen Eiland's Super Cooper or Philosophical Differences? |
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Philosophical Differences was
Bob’s second Honorable Mention for a script in the Writers Digest competition, along
with Enemy Within. It was also selected as part of Stageloft Repertory Theater’s New
Plays Festival and produced there in 1997. Other plays he has written include
Super
Cooper; All For One; The Lunatic, The Lover and the Poet and a variety of one-acts. His
works in progress include Empty Sky. As a director, Bob has helmed
The
Miracle Worker twice, at Arlington Friends of the Drama and at the theater group he
founded in Medfield (MA), The Gazebo Players. Other directorial efforts have included
To Kill a Mockingbird, The
Night of the Iguana, Murder Has Been Arranged, The Cocktail Hour, The Most Dangerous Woman
(written by his late father Ted Eiland, published and produced Off-Broadway) and the
children’s version of Androcles and the Lion. As an actor in both repertory and
community theater, Bob has performed as Charly in Flowers For Algernon, John Proctor in
The Crucible, Ford in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Duke Orsino in
Twelfth Night, Biff in Death of a Salesman, Mortimer in
Arsenic and Old Lace, Dogberry in
Much Ado About Nothing, Zach in A Chorus Line, Applegate in
Damn Yankees, Jud in
Oklahoma, Bill Sikes in Oliver, and both Dick Christie and Bogart in different productions
of Play It Again Sam. He played John Hammond, P.I., based on Humphrey Bogart’s Sam
Spade, in Big City Blues, a United Way film, and has acted in several independent films
produced and directed by Michael Legge. Bob lives with his wife Sharlotte,
daughter Thea and son Charlie in Harvard, and runs an executive search business focusing on high tech executives
and top software engineering talent. For more information, visit
