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Private Eyes

Private Eyes
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Steven Dietz
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 71
Pub. Date: 1998
ISBN-10: 0822216191
ISBN-13: 9780822216193
Cast Size: 2 female, 3 male

About the Play:

Private Eyes has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and Female/Male Scenes.

Private Eyes is a full-length drama by Steven Dietz. Love, and the theatre, can be rife with imagined realities, deception, and betrayal. In the romantic thriller Private Eyes, reality and fantasy collide: Is the actress having an affair with the director, or is that just a play she's rehearsing with her husband? Or is it simply what her husband's imagining?

Private Eyes is a comedy of suspicion in which nothing is ever quite what it seems. Matthew's wife, Lisa, is having an affair with Adrian, a British theatre director. Or perhaps the affair is part of the play being rehearsed. Or perhaps Matthew has imagined all of it simply to have something to report to Frank, his therapist. And, finally, there is Cory – the mysterious woman who seems to shadow the others – who brings the story to its surprising conclusion. Or does she? The audience itself plays the role of detective in this hilarious "relationship thriller" about love, lust and the power of deception.

Private Eyes premiered in 1996 by the Arizona Theatre Company in Tuscon, Arizona. It gained wide recognition when it was presented in 1997 at the famed Actors Theatre of Louisville as part of the annual Festival of New American Plays, an influential showplace for playwrights. Since then the play had regional premieres at professional theatres across the US and has been mounted by colleges and community theatres.

Cast: 2 female, 3 male

What people say:

"Steven Dietz's … Pirandellian smooch to the mercurial nature of theatrical illusion and romantic truth, Dietz's spiraling structure and breathless pacing provide enough of an oxygen rush to revive any moribund audience member … Dietz's mastery of playmaking … is cause for kudos." — Village Voice

"The cleverest and most artful piece presented at the 21st annual [Humana] festival was Private Eyes by writer-director Steven Dietz … Dietz has created a romantic comedy in which what's real inevitably turns out to be an illusion. It's a play within a play within a play within a play within a psychiatrist's office – a Chinese box full of tricks and surprises." — Chicago Tribune

About the Playwright:

Steven Dietz is one of America's most widely-produced contemporary playwrights, known for his quirky comedies that are popular at regional theatres. Since 1983, his thirty-plus plays have been seen at over one hundred regional theatres in the United States, as well as Off-Broadway. International productions have been seen in over 20 countries and his work has been translated into 10 languages. He teaches playwriting and directing at the University of Texas at Austin.

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