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Ripcord
Ripcord
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Author: David Lindsay-Abaire Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 59 Pub. Date: 2016 ISBN-10: 0822234602 ISBN-13: 9780822234609 Cast Size: 3 female, 3 male
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About
the Play:
Ripcord is a full-length comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire.
The Golden Girls meets The Odd Couple in this madcap comedy. Abby Binder makes life so miserable for her roommates at an
assisted-living facility that they change rooms when a bed becomes
available. But not Marilyn Dunne, a relentlessly cheerful woman who
grinds on Abby's nerves! The women make a bet to determine whether
Marilyn stays or goes. Which one in this "odd couple" will
win?
Ripcord is about two elderly women who butt heads in the
Bristol Place Senior Living Facility. A sunny room on an upper floor
is prime real estate, so when the cantankerous Abby is forced to
share her quarters with new-arrival Marilyn, she has no choice but to
get rid of the infuriatingly chipper woman by any means necessary. A
seemingly harmless bet between the old women quickly escalates into a
dangerous game of one-upmanship that reveals not just the tenacity of
these worthy opponents, but also deeper truths that each would rather
remain hidden. As heartfelt as it is deliciously inappropriate,
Ripcord is a hilarious high-stakes comedy follows two women of
a certain age locked in a no-holds-barred battle of the wills – to
the death.
Ripcord premiered in 2015 at Manhattan Theatre Club's City
Center – Stage I off-Broadway in New York City. Since
then the play had
regional premieres at professional theatres across the US and has
become a popular choice for regional, high school, college, and
community theatre productions.
Cast: 3 female, 3 male
What people say:
"A show to treasure. David
Lindsay-Abaire's ripping Ripcord is a
deeply satisfying and vastly entertaining story of two elderly women
thrown together by a comic cosmic force possessed of a wicked sense
of humor… With Lindsay-Abaire – a shape-shifting writer of always
humanist works – nothing ever happens merely for its own sake.
There are deeper issues lurking below the comedic surface…that
gradually build from belly laughs to something more emotionally
nutritious." — Deadline
"David Lindsay-Abaire's
tastily sweet-and-sour Ripcord is great fun!...
Solidly crafted, the play is larded with moments of surprise, both
wacky and more substantial. When the play gets serious, it's
genuinely moving. Beyond the high jinks, Ripcord
offers a compelling look at the pleasure of a challenge and the
challenge of finding pleasure." — Time Out
(New York)
"David Lindsay-Abaire
took a serious turn with his shattering 2007 Pulitzer Prize
winner, Rabbit Hole… But the plays that first put him on the map
were bittersweet comedies from the Christopher Durang school of the
absurd… [Ripcord] signals a detour back to the
territory of his earlier work…there's no shortage of funny lines
and inspired moments of physical comedy…." — The
Hollywood Reporter
"The author of comedy-dramas
that toy with sitcom expectations but then veer elsewhere, [David
Lindsay-Abaire] is obviously riffing, in Ripcord,
on television templates like The Golden Girls…[It's a] play that
flirts with surrealism…but because he writes such good scenes it's
nevertheless heartbreaking and hopeful, suggesting the possibility
that, even in old age, people can make choices that may produce a
gentler landing." — New York Magazine
About the Playwright:
David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright, lyricist,
librettist and screenwriter. He is the author of Rabbit Hole,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His other theatre works
include Good People, Fuddy Meers, and Kimberly Akimbo. He is Co-Chair
of the Juilliard School's Playwriting Program.
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