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London Suite

London Suite
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Neil Simon
Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 106
Pub. Date: 2010
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0573695091
ISBN-13: 9780573695094
Cast Size: 3 female, 3 male

About the Play:

London Suite is a full-length comic drama by Neil Simon. A quartet of short plays set in the same suite of a fashionable old hotel in London. In each playlet the prolific playwright sets a different tone, starting with a thriller, moving to a comedy, then to a hilarious farce, and finally a comedy-drama.

London Suite contains Neil Simon's characteristic witty dialogue, sight gags and unexpected moments of poignancy. What makes the play even more interesting is seeing a small group of actors portray all the various characters in the four different playlets. In the first story, Settling Accounts, the suite is occupied by an inebriated Welsh writer who is holding his long time business manager, caught absconding with the writer's money, at gun point. The villain concocts increasingly farfetched explanations of what he was doing at Heathrow with the cash. In Going Home, an American widow and her daughter, in England to buy shoes, take over the suite. At the daughter's insistence, her mother spends her last evening in London with a rich Scotsman who is allergic to marriage. In The Man on the Floor, the hotel guests are Mark and Annie, a frantic married couple from New York who have lost their tickets to Wimbledon. When things could not get worse they do, of course. Mark's back goes out and a doctor is called in, whose back also goes out. The hotel staff, in the meantime, is frustrated because someone has mistakenly put Mark and Annie in the suite that the Hollywood actor, Kevin Kostner, was supposed to have. The evening ends on a funny, bittersweet note with Diana and Sidney, another chapter in the lives of two characters from his earlier play California Suite. Diana, the Oscar-winning actress, and Sidney, her bisexual husband, are now divorced and are seeing each other for the first time in years. She is promoting her hit TV series and he needs money for his lover who is dying of cancer. The money is not a problem for Diana, but the realization that she still loves him is.

London Suite premiered in 1994 at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, and opened Off-Broadway in 1995 at the Union Square Theatre. The production was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. The play is regularly performed in regional, college, and community theatre productions.

Cast: 3 female, 3 male

What people say:

"Makes laughter easy." — New York Times

"You'll leave this bright comedy with a smile on your face." — NBC-TV

"Booked solid with merciful laughter." — Newark Star-Ledger

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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