{"product_id":"9780573697302","title":"Third Story, The","description":"Comedy \/ Characters: 4m, 2f \/ Unit set\u003cp\u003eA faded screenwriter in the 1940's woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screen play. The gangster\/sci fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist and her failed and understandly bitter human cloning experiment. A third story is the Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child about a painfully shy princess who forges a diabolical pact with a terrifying but surprisingly vulnerable old witch. The fairy tale inspires the movie which inspires the mother and son screenwriters to mend their fractured relationship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Plays-within-plays require such intricate tailoring. So it's a pleasure to report that with The Third Story, the ever-captivating Charles Busch proves equally deft as both performer and seamstress.\" -Theatermania. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The main joy of The Third Story is that its foolery embodies something substantive...No wonder The Third Story feels like such an energizing event.\" -Village Voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samuel French, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018827841776,"sku":"9780573697302","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780573697302_p0.jpg?v=1763720614","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780573697302","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}