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The Private Ear
The Private Ear
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Author: Peter Shaffer Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 49 Pub. Date: 1962 ISBN-10: 0573022151 ISBN-13: 9780573022159 Cast Size: 1 woman, 2 men
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About
the Play:
The Private Ear is a one-act comedy by Peter Shaffer.
A shy young man invites a girl to dinner at his apartment with his
best friend, whom the girl winds up falling for. Conceived as a
companion piece to The Public Eye, with which it constitutes a
full evening of theatre, they give the audience a fascinating window
into the turbulent changing attitudes to love in the 1960s through a
combination of comedy, pathos and drama. The Private Ear can
also be presented independently with equal effectiveness.
The Private Ear is a tender account of a rueful romance.
Bob, plain and shy, thinks he has found a different kind of girl he
met at a concert and invites her to dinner. In the interim he has
romanticized her as another Venus. Reclusive Bob, normally used to
giving his full attention to his record collection, calls in a favour
from Ted, his slick, man about town friend, to coach him. When the
girl arrives, she is a very common sort and Bob is awkward to the
point of clumsiness, and destroys the mood. Ted bustles about,
further reducing Bob's store of confidence. Her quiet poise is
revealed as foolishness and she finds classical music as tedious as
Bob's conversation.
The double bill of The Private Ear and The Public Eye
premiered in 1962 at The Globe Theatre in London's West End, with
Maggie Smith playing the female in both, and transferred
successfully to Broadway at the Morosco Theatre in 1963. Since
then the plays
has been successfully staged at several professional theatres
and have
been mounted by colleges and community theatres.
Cast: 1 woman, 2 men
What people say:
"Delightful ... are deftly
contrived, cheerfully entertaining." — New York
Herald Tribune
About the Playwright:
Sir Peter Levin
Shaffer, CBE (1926-2016) was an English playwright and
screenwriter. He is familiar to North American audiences as the
author of Amadeus and Equus, two of the most successful
plays of the postwar era, and of a string of other award-winning
plays, several of which have been turned into films.
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