{"product_id":"the-third-story-9780573697302","title":"The Third Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComedy \/ Characters: 4m, 2f \/ Unit setA 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. 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. The main joy of The Third Story is that its foolery embodies something substantive...No wonder The Third Story feels like su","brand":"Samuel French Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862766780759,"sku":"9780573697302","price":12.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780573697302.jpg?v=1759918683","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-third-story-9780573697302","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}