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The Only Light in Reno: a play in two acts
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ISBN13: 9798864231203
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 12 2023
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 12 2023
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Reno, Nevada. August, 1960. It is 106 degrees outside. Filming on The Misfits is so hopelessly behind schedule that the producers refuse to release Marilyn Monroe to attend the Hollywood opening of her latest film. So Hollywood is coming to Marilyn, and Reno is getting its first movie premiere.
Elizabeth Taylor has been living in Las Vegas exile since her marriage to Eddie Fisher rocked the scandal sheets, and has been sent to Reno to walk the red carpet at Marilyn's movie.
Elizabeth Taylor has been living in Las Vegas exile since her marriage to Eddie Fisher rocked the scandal sheets, and has been sent to Reno to walk the red carpet at Marilyn's movie.
Montgomery Clift is fighting whisper campaigns of his own, and a glamorous glittering event escorting the two most desired women in the world is just what his image needs.
And then the Sierra Mountains catch fire, grounding flights and blocking all roads in and out of the city. Reno loses power. Paula Strasberg has the generator from the film set brought to the Mapes Hotel, giving Marilyn the only electricity in town, and setting the stage for the strangest slumber party in cinematic history. This is the untold story of when Hollywood came to the Biggest Little City in the World... for a movie premiere that never happened. Payne has a remarkable talent for taking a few threads of historical fact and weaving them into something wholly original and entertaining. He dispenses pithy, Coward-style one-liners with aplomb, while investing these larger-than-life personalities with complex emotional interiors. Thus, for all its giddy glamour, The Only Light in Reno appears to be a study of personal pain and public sting. ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION If it hadn't really happened, playwright Topher Payne almost certainly would have made it up: the match of writer to outrageous subject is so deliciously fitting. Payne imagines what might have transpired during that long, hot night when these enormous personalities were stuck in a ninth-floor suite at the Mapes Hotel during a Sierra Mountain wildfire with little to do but drink, pop pills, wear glamorous clothes, bare their souls and insult each other with cuttingly witty zingers. Clearly, Reno is Topher-country.
ARTS ATL
And then the Sierra Mountains catch fire, grounding flights and blocking all roads in and out of the city. Reno loses power. Paula Strasberg has the generator from the film set brought to the Mapes Hotel, giving Marilyn the only electricity in town, and setting the stage for the strangest slumber party in cinematic history. This is the untold story of when Hollywood came to the Biggest Little City in the World... for a movie premiere that never happened. Payne has a remarkable talent for taking a few threads of historical fact and weaving them into something wholly original and entertaining. He dispenses pithy, Coward-style one-liners with aplomb, while investing these larger-than-life personalities with complex emotional interiors. Thus, for all its giddy glamour, The Only Light in Reno appears to be a study of personal pain and public sting. ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION If it hadn't really happened, playwright Topher Payne almost certainly would have made it up: the match of writer to outrageous subject is so deliciously fitting. Payne imagines what might have transpired during that long, hot night when these enormous personalities were stuck in a ninth-floor suite at the Mapes Hotel during a Sierra Mountain wildfire with little to do but drink, pop pills, wear glamorous clothes, bare their souls and insult each other with cuttingly witty zingers. Clearly, Reno is Topher-country.
ARTS ATL
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