Long Ago And Far Away And Other Short Plays
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SKU: HU.9780822213970

Play, Plays. Softcover Book. Hal Leonard Australia #9780822213970. Published by Hal Leonard Australia (HU.9780822213970).

ISBN D0822213974. 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.1 inches.

THE STORIES: LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY is a domestic drama of a troubled young wife who finds herself crossing through time - and identities - on a fateful winter evening in an empty apartment. (2 men, 2 women.) FOREPLAY OR: THE ART OF THE FUGUE brings us Chuck, a would-be Don Juan, in three rounds of seduction with three different women on a miniature-golf course. (3 men, 3 women.) SEVEN MENUS shows a round-robin of relationships at a restaurant table, as demonstrated by a group of friends that change, couple by couple and course by course, throughout several different meals. (4 men, 4 women.) MERE MORTALS eavesdrops on a lunch hour on a girder fifty stories over the street, as three construction workers share increasingly amazing secrets of their past. (3 men.) SPEED-THE-PLAY is a crash-course send-up of David Mamet, presenting the complete works of the master of scatological dialogue in just under seven male-bonding minutes. (9 men, 2 women, flexible casting).

Comedy and drama come together in this volume of plays by the award-winning playwright. "The best work is SEVEN MENUSthe clever staging and the compression of the one-act form give a biting sense of the instability of contemporary urban existence." - The Record. In FOREPLAY "David Ives has composed an intricate pattern of dialogue, tracing three separate scenes, or are they seductions? It's a well-crafted sextet." - Show Business.