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Friday Night
Author(s):
James Elward
THE STORIES: In the first play, THE RIVER, two unmarried ladies meet in a cafe to lament the fact that one of them just reached the dangerous age of 30--which the other (a far more philosophic sort) has long since sailed safely past. Brooding on the finality of it all, and the broken romances which have embittered them, the two find their attention drawn to the couple at the next table--a sweet young thing in her twenties and the older man with whom she is obviously having an affair. They don't mean to eavesdrop, but it is as if they were seeing themselves just a few years earlier, and their knowledge of what the young girl is in for makes them want to speak up. Which they do--with funny, touching and ultimately beneficial results. (2 men, 3 women). The second play, PASSPORT, deals with a lonely middle-aged newspaperman, a little the worse for drink and sadly convinced of his ineffectiveness and failure as a person. Out of his monologue spoken perhaps with the aching desire that someone will miraculously hear, and care, comes a remarkable portrait of a man alone--wanting to feel alive again; but reconciled to an existence without real meaning or purpose. (1 man). In MARY AGNES IS THIRTY-FIVE, a couple arrive at the girl's apartment after an evening out--he bent on seduction, and she determined to preserve her honor. They have both reached the age where loneliness might seem to be a tempering influence, but he has (without really being aware of it) become the predatory bachelor and she (although she still has hopes) the frigid spinster. Their confrontation is poignant and very real--but ultimately, as it must be, a stalemate. (1 man, 1 woman).
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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: | Not Available | | Male Characters: | Not Available | | Female Characters: | Not Available | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $40 per performance when produced together; $15 for PASSPORT; $20 each for THE RIVER and MARY AGNES IS THIRTY-FIVE when produced individually
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
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