
Other People's Happiness
Adam Seidel
THE STORY: Laurie and Dan are an average blue-collar couple, he a warehouse worker, she employed in a restaurant, who have an eleven-year-old son; a tacky, cheaply furnished apartment; and an urge to get ahead like other people.
In a series of se
"A bitingly satirical study of a blue-collar couple determined to rise above their lot in life. “Slowly, quietly and skillfully, he peels away layers of feeling into two organisms, a man and his wife, are revealed squirming in a mass of banalities…it is a beautiful piece of work…” —New York Daily News. “…accumulates real power by the end…Mr. Blomquist writes extremely well…"
— New York Post
Weekends Like Other People is a American play written by David Blomquist and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).
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