Writer's Block
by Woody Allen

Writer's Block Book Cover
Writer's Block Cover

Highlights

One Act Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Interior Set American Comedy

Synopsis

Each play is an absurdist take on marital infidelity one instance set on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the other in Old Saybrook Connecticut.

Fred Savage a homicidal paranoid schizophrenic vagrant ex-copywriter has been stalking a screenwriter for weeks convinced that his prey stole his idea - in fact his life - to create a successful movie plot.

In an orthodontist is hosting her sister and golf-mad brother-in-law a plastic surgeon at her grand suburban house.

When a couple who once owned the building stops by they spark an old fashioned sex farce that is full of verve and cunning.

Press Reviews

"Non-stop one-liners."

— Curtainup.com

"...sits dead center in the Woody Allen universe...where relatively affluent people grapple comically and paranoiacally with serious questions of love and lust...and the possibility of happiness given the inevitability of death."

— The New York Times

"Full of funny material."

— The New York Daily News

Characters

Character
SHEILA
JIM
JIM FRED BARBARA
NORMAN
FRED
SHEILA NORMAN JENNY DAVID HAL SANDY MAX
JENNY
BARBARA
DAVID
HAL
SANDY
MAX

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 2015
Binding Paperback
Pages 78
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573626302
ISBN-10 0573626308

Writer's Block is a American comedy play written by Woody Allen and published by Samuel French (2015).

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