Tender is the Night

Fitzgerald's "favorite novel" is the story of their passionate love affair and their life as the perfect Jazz Age couple

He's an idealistic American psychiatrist, full of charm and a promising career

She's an extraordinarily beautiful and wealthy mental patient being treated at a Swiss sanitarium

They fall in love and marry

Unfortunately, her shameful and tragic past continually forces him to be both doctor and husband

But he can't

And though they love each other, he eventually has an affair with a Hollywood starlet, dooming their marriage and setting the stage for his disintegration and loss of self

Surrounding them are a host of expatriate Americans and glamorous Europeans Dick has "collected"

Cast - M8,F5 (doubling, flexible casting) - Flexible Set

Reviews

"A magical, exciting theatre experience. Golden is the glamor, bittersweet is the romance, and potent is the magic of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic jazz age novel ... brought lyrically and luminously -and yes, tenderly - to the stage in this sensitive dramatization" ~ Drama-Logue

"Lavish. Ambitious. Lovely" ~ NY Times

"Sheer perfection. A brilliant adaptation of a classic literary piece" ~ Santa Monica Evening Outlook

"An absolute knockout" ~ Daily Breeze

"Beautiful. A gorgeous moving play" ~ Tolucan