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Stops Along the Way
Stops Along the Way
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Author: Jeffrey Sweet Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 45 Pub. Date: 1981 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822210851 ISBN-13: 9780822210856 Cast Size: 3 female, 4 male
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About
the Play:
Stops Along the Way has long been a favourite of acting
teachers for Female Monologues and Female/Male Scenes.
Stops Along the Way is a one-act drama by Jeffrey Sweet.
The final stages of an illicit relationship are played out in a
series of brief wayside scenes as Larry, the defecting partner,
drives Donna from Ohio to her home and husband in Baltimore. Created
as a companion piece for Routed, with which it constitutes a
full evening of theatre, Stops Along the Way can also be
presented independently with equal effectiveness.
Stops Along the Way is a bittersweet examination of a
romance grown cold. Larry, a teacher, is anxious to break up the
recent affair he started with his former student Donna. As Larry
drives Donna home to her husband, the play captures the mounting
discomfort that follows. Linda tries delaying tactics as they stop
along the way, struggling to rekindle the passion they had shared.
When finally they stop at a motel, to Larry's increasing
exasperation, Linda attempts to seduce him. In the end, the demands
of convention and existing commitments prevail, illuminated by
Jeffrey Sweet's wisdom on the ongoing battle of the sexes.
Stops Along the Way premiered in 1981 at Lincoln Center in
New York City after it was selected by Edward Albee for
inclusion in the first One-Act Play Festival of the Lincoln Center
Theatre Company. The
play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and
workshops.
Cast: 3 female, 4 male
What
people say:
"The
writing is crisp and often funny." — New York Post
"…some excellent
observations into the problems of contemporary relationships."
— Hollywood Reporter
About the Playwright:
Jeffrey Sweet is an American writer, journalist, theatre
historian, and teacher. He divides his time between New York and
Chicago, where he has been constant presence since the beginning of
that city's theatrical renaissance in the 1970s. His plays have been
presented off-Broadway, internationally, and in a variety of regional
and developmental theatres. A popular teacher and author of many
newspaper and magazine articles, he currently teaches at Wagner
College, and has taught or guest lectured at dozens of universities
and professional schools.
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