The author’s earliest plays, still eerily timeless in their echoes of the loneliness and longing that have only grown in the isolation technology has turned our society into. And still riotously funny. For his own production of TWINKLE, TWINKLE at Hollywood and Vine in Plymouth, MA, Ernest the former soap opera star took on the role of Ted Talbot the soap opera star. He and his costars Pamela Lambert and Jeff Gill had a ball, as did the audience.
In the first one, a woman stopped for speeding in LA offers the arresting officer A GOOD TIME if he’ll only let her off, never imagining that one day he’d show up at her door in New York, ready to take her up on it.
In THE CONSTITUENT a grizzled Maine woodsman writes scathing and profane letters to his Senator in Washington, who finally has had enough and comes to pay a (not so) friendly visit.
TWINKLE, TWINKLE imagines what would happen if a soap opera star with too much time on his hands drove all the way to Ohio to answer in person a restless housewife’s provocative fan letters. Fortunately it’s her husband’s bowling night.
Premiered at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre in Jupiter, FL ~ 1982
Starring Kirstie Alley, Parker Stevenson, Ned Beatty, Charles Durning, Stockard Channing and Burt Reynolds
Directed by Dom Deluise and Charles Nelson Riley
Click to order: ANSWERS | A GOOD TIME | THE CONSTITUENT | TWINKLE TWINKLE
Professional licensing available through The Office of Ernest Thompson. Click here.
Amateur licensing available through the Dramatists Play Service. Click here.
