Happy
by Robert Caisley

Happy Book Cover
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Highlights

90 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

Alfred is happy about his life.

He's happy with his job.

He's happy with his marriage.

He's even happily raising his special needs daughter.

However when his best friend invites him to meet the latest woman in his life things spin out of control.

Press Reviews

"90 wild and intriguing minutes! Caisley’s script is funny, deliberately unnerving, full of smart dialogue and stinging rejoinders."

— Christine Dolen, The Miami Herald

"Dinner-disaster dramedy on a grand scale. [Caisley] successfully engineers a transition from uncomfortable comedy of un-manners to full-blown psychodrama – doing so in a much more elegant and complex way than Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage."

— John Thomason, Miami New Times

"The suspense builds tantalizingly as we peer inside the disturbing world of [Caisley’s] characters."

— Ronni Reich, The Star Ledger

"Eva is perhaps the most vicious, cruel, vindictive, and thoroughly hateable character I’ve encountered on stage in years, and she’s also one of the most fascinating. Just a truly excellent new play…that resembles Broadway hits like God of Carnage, which Happy ultimately surpasses, and even has thematic links to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

— David Templeton, KRCB

"Edgy entertainment."

— Michael Sommers, The New York Times

Characters

Character
Melinda

his wife; 40s; she is happy

Eduardo

his friend; 60s; extraordinarily vibrant for his age; speaks with a slight accent; he is happy

Eva

20s, she is not happy

Alfred Rehm

40s; he is happy

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 2013
Binding Paperback
Pages 82
Place New York, New York?]
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573701696
ISBN-10 0573701695
LCC PR6053.A374 H37 2013

Happy is a American comedy play written by Robert Caisley and published by Samuel French in New York, New York?] (2013).

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Amateur Only
Fee: Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)

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