Synopsis
The Guys - ACTING EDITION
Published by Dramatists Play Service
1 Male 1 Female
He's looking for a writer to help him with the eulogies he must present at their memorial services
Nick and Joan spend a long afternoon together, recalling the fallen men through recounting their virtues and their foibles, and fashioning the stories into memorials of words
In the process, Nick and Joan discover the possibilities of friendship in each other and their shared love for the unconquerable spirit of the city
As they make their way through the emotional landscape of grief, they draw on humor, tango, the appreciation of craft in all its forms - and the enduring bonds of common humanity. Based on a true story
"The kind of quiet hybrid that the situation and the times - an era of a million pithy sound bites, booming rhetoric, and the numbing repetition of the CNN loop that followed the attacks - seemed to demand ... A small jewel of a play" - Chicago Tribune