Digby
by Joseph Dougherty

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120 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings American Comedy

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THE STORY: Digby is a bespectacled, rather mousy young advertising copywriter to whom most women wouldn't give a second glance.

Which is fine with him, as Digby believes that most modern relationships are sex masquerading as intimacy.

But his res

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"A consistently delightful, thoroughly ingratiating comedy which takes the revolutionary position that men and women can simply be friends—without the distracting factor of sex to complicate their relationship. ”Dougherty's writing is sharp and funny, and his observation of human nature genial but acute.“ —New York Post. ”…it is nearly impossible to resist Joseph Dougherty's DIGBY…the kind of snappy romantic comedy that writers like Jean Kerr and George Axelrod once supplied regularly to Broadway.“ —The New York Times. ”…the best romantic comedy of this or any recent season.“ —BackStage. ”…there is evidence of a theatrical imagination at work every step of the way…"

— The New Yorker

Publication

Year 1998
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822203087
ISBN-10 0822203081

Digby is a American comedy play written by Joseph Dougherty and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).

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