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London Suite
London Suite
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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
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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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