Cuthbert's Last Stand A One-Act Play

Winner of the 5th Annual National One-Act Play Competition at FirstStage in Los Angeles, this hilarious contemporary comedy of manners by award-winning playwright Andrew Biss turns the coming out story on its head with a cast of characters you'll not soon forget. As the play begins, Mrs. Pennington-South has once again succeeded in coercing a handsome young man – one named Tristram, in this instance – back to her home to have tea with her and her ill-tempered son, Cuthbert. What the shy, rather awkward Tristram doesn't realise is that he is, in fact, being presented as a possible suitor for Cuthbert. His mother's matchmaking arrangements, however, have become increasingly intolerable for Cuthbert and as the tea progresses and the intimations and pressures are ratcheted up, Cuthbert finally reaches breaking point.Exasperated and angry, he decides that the time has come at last to confront his mother with the shocking truth that he knows can only break her heart: the open admittance of his heterosexuality.Suitable for general audiences, requiring a cast of 2 males and 1 female.Cuthbert's Last Stand premiered in New York in 2002 and has since gone on to have many other successful productions around the U.S. and Canada.Also, look out for the continuation of Cuthbert's Last Stand in the newly released full-length play Suburban Redux, which follows the further romantic adventures of these unlikely and decidedly offbeat lovebirds.