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Private Eyes
Private Eyes
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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
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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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