Life Under Water
by Richard Greenberg

Life Under Water

Synopsis

The setting is the present-day Hamptons, that sun drenched stretch of expensive ocean frontage where the rich and privileged while away their summers.

Two attractive college girls, Amy-Joy and Amy-Beth, are looking for a good time, and think they have found it in the person of Kip, a handsome preppie who is in flight from the lavish home he shares with his divorced, domineering and bitingly sophisticated mother and her narcissistic married lover.

And romance does develop, if not quite in the manner anticipated, as the triangular affair of the young people is deftly counterpointed against the vapid relationship of the older couple.

But while high comedy and sharp observation prevail, the play yields a lacerating portrait of a contemporary upper-middle-class that is, sadly and humorously, bored, self-indulgent and emotionally recklessundefined

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Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 5 total roles, 3 female and 2 male roles.

Publication

Year Published
1985
ISBN 10
0822206609
ISBN 13
9780822206606
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
72 pages
Language
English
Print
Life Under Water is a American play written by and published by Dramatists Play Service in 1985. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780822206606 and an ISBN-10 of 0822206609.

Rating

3.33 out of 5

from 41 ratings and 4 reviews

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