Necessary Ends
by Marvin Cohen

NECESSARY ENDS involves two couples who tangle in a philosophical farce about love, language, sex, time, and death.

"The term 'character' was coined with Marvin Cohen in mind.

A gentle observer of the unpredictable and slightly absurd, Marvin has a fondness for mankind that is unmistakably his own.

Sometimes I think of him as a comedian-chronicler standing at the center, his head turned slightly toward your line of speaking to accommodate his hearing aid.

NECESSARY ENDS is the sum of these parts, as Marvin positions and repositions people within relationships, that ever-aimed ear to the pun and odd bits of conversation, as though he's walking slowly through a cocktail party.

The strength of his writing stems from his baroque sense of humor and his ability to see both the world and himself as wonderfully delightful miscreants."

—Joseph Papp