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Stops Along the Way

Stops Along the Way
Your Price: $15.95 CDN
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

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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