# Peggy Plays Off-Broadway

Author: Hughes, Virginia, 1925-; Leone, Sergio (Illustrator) [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55815

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Peggy+Plays+Off-Broadway+Hughes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The play, which Randy described as a fantasy, or a “modern morality play,” was not an easy one for the actors. The parts could, with too broad a reading, descend into farce or, with not just the right quality of the fantastic, slide off into dullness. The setting was a resort which was, in actuality, a sort of rest home for wealthy people who needed to get away from themselves for a while—or to find themselves. The point of the play, which gradually emerged, was that each of the characters had somehow led at least two distinct kinds of lives and had found both of them unsatisfactory. All the people in the play were trying, in whatever ways they could, to find some third or fourth kind of...

## Chapters

- [Scene Three. That’s what we’re starting on in the next rehearsal](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peggy-plays-off-broadway-55815/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Act Two, Scene Two, she realized wryly just how far from brilliance they](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peggy-plays-off-broadway-55815/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Act Two](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peggy-plays-off-broadway-55815/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Act One](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peggy-plays-off-broadway-55815/chapters/3/index.md)