Synopsis
Girls We have Known and Other One-Act Plays - Warm And Tender Love & Soap Opera
Published by Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 3 Female
The action centers on two young buddies, a Hollywood screenwriter and a hip pool hustler, who are driving cross-country from Los Angeles to New York
Their conversation, which is bright, funny and most revealing, is concerned largely with their amorous exploits over the many years of their acquaintance - and some "double-dealing" which only now comes to light as road-weariness (and scotch) loosen their tongues (2 men)
Warm And Tender Love ~ is set in the sauna of a New York City health club, where a streetwise young Manhattanite tries to work his charms on an attractive young girl - who happens to be Russian
While both speak English, there is an obvious "culture gap" to be surmounted, which leads to some very fast, funny and ultimately touching developments.(commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville) (1man, 1woman)
Soap Opera ~ is a deft and dramatically arresting interweaving of monologues, as a secretary, a mechanic and a painter separately reveal the sometimes bizarre details of their romantic triangle
By turns lyrical, terrifying and comic, the play is both a heightened melodrama and a dreamlike allegory of sexual confusion (1 man, 2women) (commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville)
Three remarkably inventive and absorbing one-act plays by a writer of exceptional originality and skill. Although quite different in mood and style, the plays blend into a cohesive, theatrically vivid program - but can be presented separately with equal success