Long Ago And Far Away
by David Ives

Name: Long Ago And Far Away
Brand: David Ives
SKU: 9780822213970
Rating: 3.5 (26 reviews)

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One Act 90 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about the play. While some enjoy its wit and character development, others find it lacking in clarity and depth compared to the author's other works. Overall, it presents interesting themes but varies in execution among the pieces.

Witty and original humor Engaging characters Thought-provoking themes Lacks clarity in parts Not as strong as other works

Synopsis

LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY is a domestic drama of a troubled young wife who finds herself crossing through time—and identities—on a fateful winter evening in an empty apartment.

(2 men, 2 women.) FOREPLAY THE ART OF THE FUGUE brings us Chuck, a would-be Don Juan, in three rounds of seduction with three different women on a miniature-golf course.

(3 men, 3 women.) SEVEN MENUS shows a round-robin of relationships at a restaurant table, as demonstrated by a group of friends that change, couple by couple and course by course, throughout several different meals.

(4 men, 4 women.) MERE MORTALS eavesdrops on a lunch hour on a girder fifty stories over the street, as three construction workers share increasingly amazing secrets of their past.

(3 men.) SPEED-THE-PLAY is a crash-course send-up of David Mamet, presenting the complete works of the master of scatological dialogue in just under seven male-bonding minutes.

(9 men, 2 women, flexible casting).

Press Reviews

"The best work is SEVEN MENUS, the clever staging and the compression of the one-act form give a biting sense of the instability of contemporary urban existence."
— The Record