Seven Short Farces by Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anniversary Waltz
by Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Fields
Synopsis
for a cast of 7 men and 5 women.
Hawkins outlines, "The springboard situation of ANNIVERSARY WALTZ sounds startling.
It turns out to be outrageously funny.
On their fifteenth anniversary, a happy husband makes one wine-inspired mistake.
He announces to his in-laws the romancing he and their daughter enjoyed before they were legally bound.
The information is received with violent results by outraged grandparents and blase children…The payoff comes at the hilarious second-act curtain.
The thirteen-year-old daughter chooses to tell an air audience of several dozen million people just what started all the trouble at home."
From then on troubles mount, tempers rise, until everything explodes riotously and the play ends on a warm and tender note, all the family having gained a little more understanding of each other.
Press Reviews
"A lightly funny treatise on domestic relations… —NY News. "ANNIVERSARY WALTZ knows how to be ecstatically funny and warmly human. Anybody between 13 and 70 will find some intimate association with this tale of rough domestic seas…its best laugh lines are shockingly funny"
— NY World-Telegram
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1957
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 72
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822200505
ISBN-10 0822200503
Anniversary Waltz is a American comedy play written by Jerome Chodorov and published by Dramatists Play Service (1957).
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