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Where's Julie? (A Melodramatic Comedy) Paperback – May 31, 2012

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Winner of the 2001 Kennedy Center/ACTF Region II Playwriting Award. Also, winner of the Northwest Zone High School Drama Festival's Best Production, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Sound Awards in 2008 (BC, Canada). 15-year old Julie runs away from home to escape her abusive, alcoholic father, her desperately happy mother, and her autistic younger brother, only to find herself "knocked up" by her too-old Latino boyfriend, harassed by her older sister, and shunned by her Born-Again Christian friend. But, when she contemplates abortion, that's when the play gets really funny. Mature audiences only.

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6 x 0.16 x 9 inches
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May 31, 2012
ISBN-10

0557082722
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978-0557082728

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"I'll never forget seeing WHERE'S JULIE?... The Nintendo plugged into nothingness, the audience, the involvement of the Stage Crew and their Romeo and Juliet, the Catholic guilt. It took me back to being a kid in the 80s in a creepy, discomforting, and revelatory way." (Ryan Wilson, UGA, 2010)
"Great show - laughed the whole way through.... There was a good bit of subtle physical business that played along with the dialog and kept the pace zipping. Congratulations to the Cast and Crew for a Job well done." (Jeff Marshall, Circle Ensemble Theatre, 2012)

"WHERE'S JULIE? is a dark, comedic, melodramatic ride through the life of Julie and her less than typical family and friends... WHERE'S JULIE? may at times be offensive, crass, and in your face. But that's the point... If you only take one thing away from this performance, let it be this: sometimes life can be downright miserable, but there's always room for laughter... If you like dark, offensive comedy (think South Park or Family Guy), with a good deal of wit and character, then this is your kind of theater!" (Richard Sagendorf, Mostly Harmless, 2012)

"Expect a good laugh (and maybe a lesson) when the question WHERE'S JULIE? is answered at the Dancing Goat Theatre... The play centers around Julie, a pregnant teenage runaway, and her autistic brother and alcoholic father. And while it's funny, Guyton also hopes the audience will find some poignant moments, as well." (Ann Marie Quill, The John's Creek Patch, 2012)

"WHERE'S JULIE? is... a parody of the typical after-school special, employing swelling musical cues and sappy dialogue... to create a uniquely humorous view on [some] very serious issues [which] are never cheapened or devalued, and this is where Guyton succeeds... He enables one to laugh at the situation without forgetting its possible real-life repercussions, a key element... of successful black comedy... I would recommend WHERE'S JULIE?... to those searching for underrated quality comedies geared towards a more mature audience. Guyton delivers. (Daniel Ferris, Mostly Harmless, 2012)

"WHERE'S JULIE? is not your standard dramatic fare. It quite literally explodes the fourth wall, making the running crew an integral part of the onstage action and extending the playing area into the audience. It's the tie-up at the end of the show that is its most successful part. The action moves into absurdity, with just enough chaos to heighten the resolution that follows... The strange, quirky, foul-mouthed, sacrilegious text... hits its high point at the end, leaving a nice aftertaste of raucous comedy as the audience applauds." (TheaterReview.com, 2012)

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***Winner of the 2001 Kennedy Center/ACTF Region II Playwriting Award. Also, winner of the Northwest Zone High School Drama Festival's Best Production, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Sound Awards in 2008 (BC, Canada).***

Publisher ‏ : ‎ lulu.com
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 31, 2012
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0557082722
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0557082728
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.67 ounces
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.16 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #6,265 in Comedic Dramas & Plays (Books)
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Daniel Guyton is a theatre professor at Georgia State University, as well as Georgia Military College. He has won numerous writing awards for his plays and screenplays. He has had over 500 productions of his plays around the world, and he has received over 45 publications - most of which are available here on Amazon. For more information, please visit: www.danguyton.com.

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I cannot recommend it higher

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2017
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"Having produced this show in Houston, I cannot recommend it higher. 'Where's Julie?" lives in a world that is equal parts melodramatic, experimental, and grounded - a combination that functions perfectly as the show progresses. Audiences have connected so well to the character of Jeff (who brought me to tears), Mom (an at first seemingly 50s housewife who we learn is at the end of her rope), Julie's friend the incredibly unhinged and hilariously pious Margaret, and the sweetly pot headed Hector. In fact, Julie's problems seem increasingly every day as we progress further into this world and find how everyone has their own struggles. I won't spoil the ending, but the twist on reality truly is hilarious and well earned.

We we were very fortunate to be able to share this in Houston and hope it continues to travel the world.

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Interesting play to read & would a fun challenge to produce

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2016
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Interesting play to read & would a fun challenge to produce; expensive to purchase relative to size of text & distance it was sent from.

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Timothy P. Bohn

I keep rereading this one

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2017
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In the hilarious and thought-provoking play "Where's Julie?" Daniel Guyton has captured something special. At first blush, the crude humor and seemingly thin characters give us something to laugh at—then the twist. The humor and facade are the characters' way of coping with the impossibility of their everyday lives. As the characters struggle against seemingly impossible odds to make sense of the crazy world they (we) live in, they become increasingly complex, eventually smashing the fourth wall and forcing us to engage in the questions they are struggling with. This meta-theatrical funhouse brings an absurdist twist to contemporary issues.

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Amy K.

Dark, funny and thought-provoking!

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2012
Format: Paperback

Who would have thought that a play could ever contain a funny joke about abortion? Dan Guyton masterfully presents some of our own darkest thoughts that we often cannot admit to ourselves, and finds not just the hilarity in them, but the humanity.

"Where's Julie?" is about a young woman who finds herself pregnant at 15 with a shaky support system - her verbally abusive father, her Pollyanna mother, her autistic brother, her jealous older sister, her drug-addicted boyfriend, and her judgmental best friend. At the surface, it would seem there is no hope for Julie and no hope for the child she might bear. But as the play progresses, we see that, flawed though Julie's situation may be, the people around her truly do care for and love her. If you're looking for a play outside the ordinary, you won't be disappointed with this one!

This play does contain adult language and discusses adult situations.

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Kat Reynolds

"Where's Julie? An Uncomfortably Hysterical Play

Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2009
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"Where's Julie? An Uncomfortably Hysterical Play"

Review Analysis by: Kat Reynolds

Where's Julie?, a play written by Kennedy Center short-play award winner Daniel Guyton, takes audiences on a journey through the lives and living room of an exceptionally generic American family. Correction: an American family who is exceptionally crazy! If you enjoy the humor of South Park or Family Guy, you are sure to enjoy Guyton's dark comedies, of which this play is one of the best.

The script follows the young character Julie in her quest to decide whether to keep or abort her unborn baby. She ultimately finds her answer with guidance from a crew of characters such as the loveably racist Mom, atheist sister Allison, and stoner boyfriend Hector. Each character fulfills their own needs as they share moments of clarity with the audience. Throughout the play, Guyton poignantly introduces two more unforgettable roles through The Running Crew. These two Dick Van Dyke-esque comedians bring the audience back to reality and fill in gaps on behalf of a missing intermission and curtain call. All of these characters highlight two themes which Guyton's plays discuss: despicably loveable characters, and a matriarch's struggle to keep order. If you are an audience member who enjoys American family parodies, I suggest you look up Guyton's next play performance of Where's Julie? and go see it!

The play's script opens with a picture perfect set of a 1950's household, with one exception. A Nintendo set. This is the play's central prop, and represents the broken family unit. As a tertiary plotline, the audience follows the game set and its main player, Jeffrey, on a quest to fix the machine. Next, Guyton introduces the central family parental units appropriately named Mom and Dad. These two present obstacles as Mom desperately tries to earn love and attention from her husband, while Dad desperately tries to fill his various dinner plates. As the parental figures attempt to create order in their own home, two new characters are introduced across town in Allison's apartment.

Julie and Allison are sisters who have left Mom and Dad's nest in search of Band-Aids for their own lives: one needs a job and the other a pregnancy test. Allison presents her symbolic Nintendo as her failure to get a grip on life because Julie is "in the way." Julie meanwhile is creating a butterfly effect in each household as the readers see how her decisions affect everyone around her. This script culminates with her most crucial decision: SEX. In Allison's absence (cue melodramatic music), Hector takes the scene as Julie's clueless, stoner boyfriend. Within a conversation, Julie unveils to Hector that he is, in fact, the father of her unborn child. How else can he appropriately respond, but lighting up a fat joint?

With no support from her sister or boyfriend, Julie's last resort is God, or something close to it. Margaret is a religion-loving, Jesus-praying sixteen year old who puts God "on hold" to help Julie through her problem. Another character blends into the background, but must not go unmentioned. Jeffrey is Julie's Autistic brother, and has been reviewed previously as a representation of Jesus. He is a character that challenges the family to make their own decisions by uttering the word NINTENDO as creatively as Bill and Ted say "DUDE!" Who knew one mid-90's video game could present so much compassion, frustration, and final advice when creatively placed in dialogue?

As mentioned before, the play introduces two characters as comic relief. The Running Crew's conversations kindly, but consistently remind the audience that this is JUST a play, and the characters are JUST actors, and not representations of actual people. I begin to wonder whether Guyton created The Running Crew to get some laughs, take the heat off of himself, or to really make a point that actors are "...actors! They don't have...feelings....or anything." I have concluded, after much time spent dissecting the script, that The Running Crew are ultimately a set up for the final scene. This is the scene which literally brings the family unit into the audience, and forces the patrons to accept the dysfunctional clan as they are and will always be - exceptionally crazy!

Guyton has a great talent in finding humans' most despicable traits and creating loveable characters who embody those behaviors in their daily routine. For example, in his play I'm Not Gay!, the character Gary actually murders his wife so she will not gab to their neighbors that Gary is, in fact, gay. The audience allows him this relief because we feel sympathy for his need to be what he considers normal. Similar characters appear in Where's Julie? when Mom blurts out oblivious racist generalizations, and when Dad beats his son for being a "retard." In this script the audience cuts Dad a break because, as viewers, we suppose that Jeffrey is actually an all-knowing Jesus figure, and Dad is far less mentally capable and doesn't know any better. We forgive Mom because, what can we say except "bless her little heart."

Hector provides another example of a despicable character as he represents a 23 year old that not only sleeps with a 15 year old, but also sells, steals, and smokes drugs! I cut him a break because he eventually decides to keep his day job to support his budding family, and he appears to sincerely love Julie. Would this attitude sway a judge in court? No! But somehow, Guyton convinces his audience to care for these characters who are innately immoral. Each role in the play presents a conflicting evil choice and relationship of acceptance with the audience... except Jeffrey. He materializes moral support and a quiet ear for many characters. In fact, many scenes actually sound like a prayer in which Jeffrey just listens. This coincidence, if it is that, may further substantiate his embodiment of a Christ figure.

Another interesting concept Guyton represents in his plays, and particularly this one, is a strained relationship with the matriarch and her concept of order. In Guyton's dramatic play Attic, Mother tries to maintain control with drugs, whereas, in this piece Mom attempts maintenance with advice, cereal, and a clean house. Does Mom embody all that a 1950's society has put on her - cleanliness, caretaker, and non-judgmental confidant? Yes, but in the end, this picture of happiness falls apart as she runs away with an audience member to have an affair in the lobby!

Guyton often shares with the audience an inch of his vision, and allows us to run a mile with it. This poor family is a delicious smorgasbord of immoralities and power struggles, and Guyton allows us to taste the play's themes and then empty the serving dishes, just like Dad's character, with lobby discussions after the show. However, like the despicably loveable characters, at the end of the day, I am willing to let this criticism slide. After all, Guyton may just be presenting a mirror to nature. That large compact forces the audience to look at our own behaviors and make decisions best suited to ourselves. What a smart way to passively scold the public for their own behaviors!

I will say that I have both seen the play and read the script for Where's Julie?, so I have strong opinions of what works on stage versus just reading the play. Both mediums are thought provoking, and laugh-out-loud parodies of what we see in the daily American household. Holding a script in hand allows readers to understand stage directions from the playwright's perspective, and not from a director's interpretation. With that in mind, I would highly suggest reading the play first if you enjoy lighthearted jokes at the expense of human idiosyncrasies, and then viewing Guyton's shows to watch hilarity ensue. To learn more about the author or purchase his scripts, please view his web page at [....]

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5.0 out of 5 stars I cannot recommend it higher

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting play to read & would a fun challenge to produce

5.0 out of 5 stars I keep rereading this one

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, funny and thought-provoking!

5.0 out of 5 stars "Where's Julie? An Uncomfortably Hysterical Play

I cannot recommend it higher

Interesting play to read & would a fun challenge to produce

I keep rereading this one

Dark, funny and thought-provoking!

"Where's Julie? An Uncomfortably Hysterical Play