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Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
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Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 84 Pub. Date: 2011 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0573611432 ISBN-13: 9780573611438 Cast Size: 3 female, 1 male
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About the Play:
Last of the Red Hot Lovers has long been a favourite of acting
teachers for Female Monologues, Male Monologues, and Female/Male Scenes (particularly suitable for those over 40 years old).
Last
of the Red Hot Lovers is a full-length comedy by Neil Simon.
The nagging doubts and unresolved conflict inherent in a decades-long
marriage are at the heart of Last of the Red Hot Lovers. A
middle-aged, overweight and married wannabe philanderer discovers
extramarital indulgences aren't all they're cracked up to be in three
separate affairs that fall flat in this hilarious classic Neil
Simon comedy.
Last of the Red Hot Lovers is about a modern man in the hip
1960s who looks for something new and different, but ends up finding
himself in the same situation, again and again…and again! Barney
Cashman is forty-seven, happily married, the father of three
children, a successful businessman, and a man going through a midlife
crisis. Barney is bored with his bland "nice" life. He
wants to experience his secret fantasies and dreams at least once,
and so Barney determines to have an affair. He anxiously turns to
three women for validation and distraction before it's too late, and
his attempts at seduction will leave you howling with laughter: the
first, brash Elaine Navazio proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of
neuroses; Bobbi Michele is next, a 20-ish actress who's too kooky by
half; finally comes Jeanette Fisher, a gloomy, depressed housewife
who happens to be married to Barney's best friend. Each attempt fails
worse than the last and these hilarious mishaps force Barney to
realize that what he thought was missing might been there all along.
Last of the Red Hot Lovers examines what it means to grow
older, and asks the question, "What do you do when it seems as
if your life hasn't been fully lived?"
Last of the Red Hot Lovers premiered in 1969 at the Eugene
O'Neill Theatre on Broadway and ran
for over two years, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Play.
The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes
and workshops and is regularly performed in regional, college, and
community theatre productions.
Cast: 3 female, 1 male
What people say:
"Mr. Simon has created a great
character here…it is extraordinarily funny and yet also charming…
as witty as ever, perhaps wittier." — New York Times
"Delightfully hilarious and
witty, as well as filled with wisdom about human nature… an
uproariously funny author. But he is far more than that. He has a
mellow and compassionate understanding of how weak and essentially
well meaning mankind behaves… a genuinely brilliant play."
— New York Post
Neil Simon (1927-2018) was America's most prolific
playwright. He had dozens of plays and nearly as many major motion
pictures produced. He was showered with more Academy and Tony
nominations than any other writer, and is the only playwright to have
four Broadway productions running simultaneously. His plays have been
produced in dozens of languages, and in 1983 became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honour. His true success, however, is in his unique way of
exposing something real in the American spirit.
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