The Curlew Creek Theater Special Disclaimer

This Special Disclaimer was included at the end of The Curlew Creek Theater Chapter 36

The plays discussed in some detail here, Same Time Next Year by Bernard Slade, The Man with the Plastic Sandwich by Roger Karshner, Saving Grace by Jack Sharkey, The Fourposter by Jan DeHartog, and The Odd Couple – The Female Version and Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon are all real plays licensed by Samuel French, Inc., 45 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, who is the holder of all performance rights. Such quotations used here are under “fair use” principles.

The play A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov is in the public domain.

The plays Sunrise on 44th Street, Chocolate, Roses and Sex, The Hermit of Walden, and The Back Table are totally fictional and were created by the author.

Several other plays are mentioned in passing by their titles. Some are real, including The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, both by Tennessee Williams; Mark Twain Tonight by Hal Holbrook, Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, Phantom of the Opera by John Kenley, David Gooding, Robert Thomas Noll, Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Give ’Em Hell, Harry by Samuel Gallu, The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail by Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence, Harvey by Mary Chase, and Oklahoma! by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein.

Others are just titles created by the author and used to further the story, including The House by the Graveyard, Beacon Street Blues, The Outermost House, and Fair Exchange.^CCT36

Chocolate, Roses and Sex and The Back Table are credited to the character Janine Warrenton.