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Young Marrieds at Play
Author(s):
Jerome Kass
Joe and Adam, two boyhood friends who grew up together in the slums, meet by chance and decide to get together, with their wives, for a social evening. But the pleasant memories of old times are soon submerged in the differences which the years have brought. Joe is now a teacher, married to a rich wife who also teaches, and drawn to drinking more than he should. Adam, still a rough diamond, and given to remarks which are offensive to Joe's wife, works in his father-in-law's furniture store, and vents his frustrations on his inane, but long-suffering wife, Ava. Their evening of Monopoly turns into a trial for all as the game becomes a source of selfish triumph for the loutish Adam, and his wife's attempts to make him behave trigger off outbursts of invective and even physical violence. But the strains which underlie the marriage of Joe and Ruth are also felt; in Joe's drinking, in Ruth's snide patronizing of her husband's friend, and in the discomfort which they experience in living amidst the luxury provided by her father's money. As the evening progresses the antagonisms and near-hatreds which assail both marriages surge forward with increasing dramatic thrust, subsiding, as the couples part, to a kind of armed truce--troubled, uncertain, and fraught with peril for the future.
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| Genre(s): | Not Available | | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 4 | | Male Characters: | 2 | | Female Characters: | 2 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $25 per performance
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Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
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