{"product_id":"9780573696251","title":"Ghost on Fire","description":"Comic drama \/ Characters: 7 male, 4 or 5 female\u003cp\u003eScenery: Various sets or unit set\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter showing dazzling promise in school but no success in Hollywood, director Dan Rittman suffered a breakdown and quit film making. Cameraman Neil Toomie, a hilarious, irreverent lapsed Catholic, shows up five years later with a horror film project he wants his friend to direct. Neil doesn't know that he has a brain tumor and limited time in which to rekindle the spark of old dreams. Dan doesn't realize how turning his back on his talent started a chain reaction in every aspect of his life. Their effort to make a low budget movie brings each to a moment of reckoning and reconciliation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A poignant play suffused with humor.... A witty and rueful elegy for a generation weaned on such high idealism, learning that there are limitations to life.\" N.Y. Times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We don't have a more fluent playwright than Michael Weller.\" L.A. Times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Weller manages to cry out from deep inside his generation's soul.\" Chicago Tribune. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Exhilarating.\" Chicago Daily Herald. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Weller's work, one suspects, will outlast most of his more voguish contemporaries.\" Variety.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samuel French, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50008065016048,"sku":"9780573696251","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780573696251_p0.jpg?v=1784233158","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780573696251","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}