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Outstanding Short Plays, Volume Two
David Ives
Long Ago And Far Away
by David Ives
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
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1994
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822213970
ISBN-10 0822213974
LCCN 95118190
LCC PS3559.V435 L65 1994
DCC 812.54
Long Ago And Far Away is a comedy play written by David Ives and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1994).
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