One Shoe Off
by Tina Howe

Name: One Shoe Off
Brand: Tina Howe
SKU: 9780573694417

One Shoe Off Book Cover — One Shoe Off Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

105 minsPresent DayInterior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesAmerican Comedy

Synopsis

This comedy about marriage, fidelity, adulterous longings, existential panic and the theatre takes place in Leonard and Dinah's up state New York Greek revival farmhouse where slow moving disintegration is at work.

Rooms are drifting into each other and trees and saplings have taken root indoors.

Leonard is an actor who hasn't worked in eleven years; Dinah is an overworked costume designer who can't dress herself.

They have invited their new neighbors, an overworked editor who delights in reciting nursery rhymes and his beautiful movie starlet wife, for dinner.

Things explode when a friend who is a successful movie director, drops in.

Old memories stir and new passions kindle as vegetables and Dinah's costumes fly.

ThemesEnglish drama English drama--United States PS3558.O894 O54 1993

Press Reviews

"Rich, gorgeous and compelling. It is about such good things as love, art, acting and survival, magic and marriage, nursery tales and ghost stories.... This is an exquisite, funny play."
— N.Y. Post

"A mad hatter blowout."
— Newsday

"Howe creates a high wire act of verbal and visual images.... This is high comedy."
— Theatre Week

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Dinah His wfe, late 40s	male	40s	His wfe, late 40s
Tate An editor, 40s	—	40s	An editor, 40s
Clio His wife, an actress, 30s	female	30s	His wife, an actress, 30s
Parker A director, 50s	—	50s	A director, 50s
Leonard Once an actor, 50s	—	50s	Once an actor, 50s