Mixed Doubles (Carmichael)
by Fred Carmichael
Synopsis
Two interwoven one acts, Love Means Never Having to Say You're Forty and Leonard , these plays feature flexible casting since three characters appear in both plays.
In the first, a separated middle aged couple are in the connecting suites of a Mexican motelto have a fling.
Their accidental confrontation makes them realize the importance of their years together.
In the farcical second act, a golden age couple, unmarried because of tax benefits, is in one suite and a group of inept heroin smugglers is in the other.
Press Reviews
"Perhaps the funniest of his plays."
— Village Voice
"Mr. Carmichael has written double dialogue taking place in two rooms that is variously simultaneous, counterpoint, or identical in ways that are clever indeed ... A playful view of the ageless problem of love ... [with] clever dialogue."
— Williamstown MA News
Publication
Mixed Doubles (Carmichael) is a comedy play written by Fred Carmichael and published by Samuel French (1973).
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Samuel French · 1973
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