Friday Night
by James Elward

THE STORIES: In the first play, Passport , deals with a lonely middle-aged newspaperman, a little the worse for drink and sadly convinced of his ineffectiveness and failure as a person.

Out of his monologue spoken perhaps with the aching desire that someone will miraculously hear, and care, comes a remarkable portrait of a man alone—wanting to feel alive again but reconciled to an existence without real meaning or purpose.

(1 man.) In <a href=”https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=582 Mary Agnes Is Thirty-Five , a couple arrive at the girl's apartment after an evening out—he bent on seduction and she determined to preserve her honor.

They have both reached the age where loneliness might seem to be a tempering influence, but he has (without really being aware of it) become the predatory bachelor and she (although she still has hopes) the frigid spinster.

Their confrontation is poignant and very real—but ultimately, as it must be, a stalemate.

(1 man, 1 woman.)