Another Bone

by Cathy Earnest

Another Bone was both an O’Neill and an Ashland New Play Finalist. Marie is a 9/11 widow who lost her fireman husband in the tragedy. Five years later, she is remarried to a fine man, and her teenage son is doing well. That's when the bones start coming--and keep coming--via Fedex from the NYC authorities. Then a mysterious woman appears, telling Marie she's getting the wrong bones. The world-premiere of...

Another Bone was both an O’Neill and an Ashland New Play Finalist. Marie is a 9/11 widow who lost her fireman husband in the tragedy. Five years later, she is remarried to a fine man, and her teenage son is doing well. That's when the bones start coming--and keep coming--via Fedex from the NYC authorities. Then a mysterious woman appears, telling Marie she's getting the wrong bones. The world-premiere of Another Bone asks the question: how do you move forward after total devastation, and all the debris that goes with it?

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Another Bone

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  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: Another Bone

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Cathy Earnest and their play Another Bone as a finalist for our 2012 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Cathy Earnest and their play Another Bone as a finalist for our 2012 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

Development History

  • Type Residency, Organization Triton College, Year 2013
  • Type Reading, Organization Chicago Dramatists, Year 2012

Production History

  • Type Professional, Organization Redtwist Theatre, Year 2014

Awards

  • Finalist
    Ashland New Plays Festival
    Finalist
    2013
  • Finalist
    The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
    Finalist
    2012