The Mystery of Love & Sex
by Bathsheba Doran

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Highlights

120 mins Present Day Role(s) for Black Actor(s) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

Deep in the American South, Charlotte and Jonny have been best friends since they were nine.

She’s Jewish, he’s Christian; he’s black, she’s white.

Their differences intensify their connection, until sexual desire complicates everything in surprising, compulsive ways.

An unexpected love story about where souls meet and the consequences of growing up.

Press Reviews

"Perfectly wonderful! Among the season's finest plays. It is tender, funny, packed with humanity and brimming with surprising revelations. Bathsheba Doran has written a play with such compassion and wry wisdom that I emerged from the theater into yet another frigid day feeling warmed from within."

— The New York Times

"Wise and exquisitely crafted."

— Time Out New York

"The best new play of this young year."

— Deadline.com

"There is something rather refreshing about Doran's more critical look at these young friendships that dance on the edge of Eros; something original about her probing of how little some of us actually reveal as children, often for very good reason, however close the friend; and her assertion that our soul mates actually can stymie our growth in matters of love, sex and self-actualization [...] This really is a hopeful and atypically intimate kind of play - ideal for different generations of a family, whether or not that's a group defined by birth."

— The Chicago Tribune

Characters

Character
Jonny
Howard
Lucinda
Howard’S Father
Charlotte

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Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573704543
ISBN-10 0573704546

The Mystery of Love & Sex is a comedy play written by Bathsheba Doran and published by Samuel French .

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Fee: Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)

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