About the Play:

Bad Dates has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues.

Bad Dates is a full-length comedy by Theresa Rebeck. Haley is a Texan in New York City with a top-tier restaurant to run, a teenage daughter to raise, and a dating scene to navigate. From the privacy of her bedroom, she dishes about her hilarious dating adventures. With charm and quirky grace, Haley takes us through a motley array of suitors, looking for the man who will fit her like a great pair of shoes.

Bad Dates chronicles one woman's journey of self-discovery involving the Romanian mob, a Buddhist rainstorm, a teenage daughter, shoes, and some very bad dates. "And then I realize, in this sort of strange, hallucinatory moment, that the bug guy is looking kind of good, and the things he's saying about bugs are really kind of fascinating and it is then that I realized that maybe it has been too long since I've been on a date." – So confesses a divorced mom and self-described restaurant idiot-savant who resolves to re-enter the world of dating in this thoroughly charming and slyly sweet one-woman play by the author of Spike Heels. The story of Haley Walker, a ditsy Texas waitress with 600 pairs of shoes who moves to Manhattan, goes on a string of increasingly unsatisfactory dates, falls in with a bunch of Romanian gangsters and finds love without doing hard time. Bad Dates is a hilarious one-woman show that answers the age-old question "Do men and women really need each other?" with a resounding, "Yes."

Bad Dates was originally produced in 2003 by off Broadway's Playwrights Horizons. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has become a regional theatre staple.

Cast: 1 female

About the Playwright:

Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, director, television writer, and novelist. She is the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time. Her plays include Bad Dates, Omnium Gatherum (co-written, Pulitzer finalist), Spike Heels, and Mauritius, which won Boston's prestigious IRNE and Elliot Norton Awards. Her work in television includes NYPD Blue for which she has won the Peabody, the Writer's Guild, and the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar awards.