Bøger af Charles Evered

The often hilarious, bawdy, and adventuresome story of Celadine, coffeehouse proprietor, writer, and sometime spy, during the reign of Charles II in London. "CELADINE follows the timeless structure of Restoration comedy, with its concealed identity, ribald humor and courtly intrigue. The play has bright potential for regional repeats or perhaps an Off-Broadway run. And if Hollywood were still making those fanciful Technicolor swashbuckling frolics, it would be a dandy entry for a Saturday matinee at the movies." -Variety "The titular leading lady of Charles Evered's CELADINE runs a London coffee house, writes plays, occasionally does a bit of spying, and still looks fabulous well into her forties. Assisting her at the coffee house are Mary, a former hooker, and Jeffrey, a young hunk with a penchant for cross-dressing and for crawling under his boss's skirt. Completing Celadine's entourage ... are Elliot and Rowley, the former a handsome young actor, the latter an ex-lover. If Celadine's young daughter Marie were still alive, the lady would seem to have it made - the very picture of a modern 21st-century woman, right? Not quite. Celadine is in fact a woman of the '70s, the 1670s that is, and if you think that the late 17th century is hardly the setting for a smart, sexy soufflé of a play, think again ... Certain to entertain and short enough not to outstay its welcome, Evered's lively confection will likely send many audience members off to Google the Restoration, Charles II, and Aphra Behn - and that's more than enough to rate applause." -Steven Stanley, stagescenela.com "[A] bright and breezy hit comedy - splendid. Evered has created the type of heroine Hepburn adored playing. This has the spirit of an in-his-prime Neil Simon comedy." -The Star Ledger "CELADINE is simultaneously uproariously funny even bawdy and tragically touching. It has a tinge of the sweep of history and a taste of personal loss and reconciliation." -Home News Tribune

"The triumph of Charles Evered's AN ACTOR'S CAROl is that it takes an old story and makes it seem new…his modernized take on Dickens ubiquitous holiday parable takes the Ebenezer Scrooge story out of Pre-Industrial Revolution London and plops it in a squalid playhouse where season after season of no-budget theater has been subsidized by the holiday cash cow that A Christmas Carol has become. It works, because Evered's even handed, light hearted reinvention of the source material not only delivers Dickens' original story of human redemption, but also adds some very relevant ideas about tolerance, inclusion and the theater." Michael C Moore, Kitsap Sun "If A Christmas Carol restores our love of Christmas, AN ACTOR'S CAROL restores our love of Christmas AND theatre!" Hal Linden, Tony award winning actor "Shines a 21st Century light on an age old tale with cleverness, wit and charm!" V J Hume, C V Independent "A charming and hilarious modernization of A Christmas Carol." Catherine Randazzo, Associate Artist, Florida Studio Theatre