
Heartbeats
Gerald Sternbach
THE STORY: An idealistic young woman, Carol Ann Gates, has spent most of the 1980s in a forlorn quest for love and self fulfillment.
After several years in Los Angeles and New York, she accepts an invitation from her older sister, Melanie, to stay
"…the road taken determines the roads not taken, creating and extinguishing possibility in the same decision…In traveling the pothole-ridden highways of the '80s we finally left the promise of the fresh interstates of the '50s behind. That's the driving force behind HEARTS BEATING FASTER, Ralph Pape's new drama about opportunity, its loss and romanticization, in the previous decade. Pape uses cross-country wanderers loosely knitted together by family and happenstance to add sweep to the play [in which] Carol Ann Gates' riveting third-act monologue takes a fortune-cookie motto—'Mobility is the key to survival in the '80s—and turns it into a road trip of the heart…"
— Boston Globe
Hearts Beating Faster is a American play written by Ralph Pape and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York, N.Y. (440 Park Ave. S., New York 10016) (1997).
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