The Monogamist
by Christopher Kyle

Name: The Monogamist
Brand: Christopher Kyle
SKU: 9780822215257
Rating: 3.46 (14 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

90 minsUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican Comedy

Synopsis

THE STORY: Dennis, a forty-something poet who has never lived up to his earlier promise, has just written a collection of poems concerned with the relevance of monogamy in 1990s America.

And, in a testament to his new philosophy, he's recently marr

Press Reviews

"There is a cheekily quirky new voice in our theater. It belongs to Christopher Kyle, by far the most stimulating playwright I've encountered in many a buffaloed moon…“ —New York Magazine. ”THE MONOGAMIST, a confident, smart, very funny new play…this psychological satire is a stylishly hard-edged but humane comedy of manners about the confused remains of '60s sex, media, arts and politics in the '90s.“ —Newsday (NY). ”THE MONOGAMIST is as purely funny a play as there is in New York today and they do not come any smarter.“ —New York Law Journal. ”Smart, funny, articulate and wisely touched with rue…the script radiates a bright, bold energy.“ —Village Voice. ”Trenchant, dark and jagged, THE MONOGAMIST is the best comedy of the season…newcomer, Christopher Kyle [is] a playwright whose social satire comes with a nasty, ripping edge—Molière by way of Joe Orton."
— Variety