Wishing Aces

Wishing Aces

Wishing Aces

Wishing Aces

Overview

A wealthy student/housewife must choose between her life and that of 3 other people on a train. She has run off with a college professor only to be caught in a Mississippi swamp. The hurricane brewing outside the train builds toward its inevitable whirlwind of destruction, changing her life in the process. Whom will this new age woman choose? Set in an empty Gothic station in somewhere, Louisiana.

Wishing Aces was named a top new contemporary comedy by Seattle New Plays Network, given a Fulbright Award for Paris Louisiana Exchange, and performed at the Cartoucherie Theatre in Paris and in Moscow.

Authors

Rosary Hartel O'Neill

Rosary Hartel O’Neill is the author of 25 plays, 18 published by Samuel French, Inc., and four books of nonfiction. The fourth edition of her text The Actor’s Checklist is used in schools nationwide.

Her book New Orleans Voodoo: A Cultural History (co-written with Rory Schmi ...

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