About the Play:
Seven One-Act Plays is a
collection of seven
one-act plays
by Wendy Wasserstein.
These plays may be performed
separately or as an evening of entertainment. Boy Meets
Girl is
an ideal choice for high school drama contests and one-act festivals.
In Bette And Me, the author and the legendary Bette Midler
get their hair done, try on makeup, and row a boat on the Hudson
River. They finally end up at Radio City Music Hall, where Wendy
rises from the orchestra pit on a half-shell with a blonde wig and
six-foot eyelashes. (Cast:2 female)
Boy Meets Girl brings together Dan and Molly, two
successful, thirty-something New Yorkers afraid of making a
commitment. With the help of their psychiatrists, they finally find
the courage to tie the knot under the altar before Her Majesty, the
Queen. (Cast: 1 female, 1 male)
In the course of a single Workout, an exercise instructor
writes on a novel, opens a chain of departments stores, learns to
unravel the double helix, and announces her husband's candidacy for
governor. (Cast:1 female)
Tender Offer focuses on a distant father and his
nine-year-old daughter. When he arrives late to pick her up from
dance class, they discuss their lack of communication and why he
missed her dance recital. (Cast:1 female, 1 male)
In Waiting For Philip Glass, a socialite throws a benefit
at her posh East Hampton estate for the composer, Philip Glass. When
the guest of honor fails to show up on time, the other guests are
forced to mingle among themselves and examine their own lives. (Cast:
3 female, 4 male)
Medea and her chorus of three women try to figure out if
it's appropriate to kill your children just to punish your husband.
Jason shows up, so does a messenger with news of Lady Teazle, and a
Deus ex Machina comes down from the sky and tries to cheer everybody
up. (Written with Christopher Durang.) (Cast:4 female, 2 male)
The Man In A Case: An authoritarian schoolmaster attempts to tame his wild and carefree fiancée, as she joyously breaks all the rules of propriety in their quiet 1800's Russian village. Inspired by "The Man in a Case"
by Anton Chekhov. (Cast:1 female, 1 male)
About the Playwright:
Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006) was an American playwright,
novelist, and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell
University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play, The Heidi
Chronicles, often touted as a precursor to the HBO television
series, Sex and the City. Over the course of her career,
spanning four decades, she wrote eleven plays and is one of those rare
playwrights whose work is performed regularly in schools and community
theater as well as commercial venues. She was admired both
for the warmth and the satirical cool of her writing; each of her
plays and books captures an essence of the time, makes us laugh, and
leaves us wiser.