How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
by Sarah Ruhl

Name: How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
Brand: Sarah Ruhl
SKU: 9780573706547
Rating: 3.88 (9 reviews)

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Highlights

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120 minsPresent DayMulticultural CastingUnit Set/Multiple SettingsContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesComedy

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the thought-provoking themes of love and relationships in this play. Many find it a captivating blend of comedy and deeper reflections on modern partnerships, often highlighting Ruhl's unique writing style. However, some felt that it didn't connect with them as strongly as other works by the author.

Thought-provoking themesBeautiful dialogueEngaging storytellingNot as compelling as other works

Synopsis

How to Transcend a Happy Marriage; A deliciously adventurous play that confronts the question of whether monogamy is enough to ensure a happy marriage.

Press Reviews

"How to Transcend a Happy Marriage has a charming phantasmagorical finish that points out the conflict between our animal nature and the societal norms we create to control it."
— BroadwayWorld

"Audiences are receiving a comprehensive education in the polyamorous lifestyle in Sarah Ruhl’s whimsical and spiritual domestic drama, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage... for those willing to take the ride, the play is a provocative and poetic meditation on being caught between reasonably happy domesticity and untapped, unacknowledged desires."
— AM New York

"This new play is a subversive enchantment. It is part absurd domestic serio-comedy, part erotic magic realism, unflinching about taboos and about questioning that, just maybe, monogamy isn’t enough."
— Newsday

"Provocative and enlightening... How to Transcend a Happy Marriage abounds with situations that lead its characters to say the most quotable things, all of which should be experienced live in the theater and not in any critic’s review. They’re that memorable."
— The Wrap

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
JANE	—	—	—
MICHAEL	—	—	—
GEORGE (GEORGIA)	—	—	—
PAUL	—	—	—
PIP A beautiful woman, named Deborah. Known to all as Pip. (She can dance and sing and slaughter animals and also play a teenager named Jenna.)	female	—	A beautiful woman, named Deborah. Known to all as Pip. (She can dance and sing and slaughter animals and also play a teenager named Jenna.)
DAVID (pronounced Dah-veed) and	—	—	(pronounced Dah-veed) and
FREDDIE Two men who Pip has a polyamorous relationship with. David is a mathematician. I don’t know what Freddie is but he doesn’t know either.	male	—	Two men who Pip has a polyamorous relationship with. David is a mathematician. I don’t know what Freddie is but he doesn’t know either.