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The Drunken City

The Drunken City
Your Price: $17.95 CDN
Author: Adam Bock
Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 72
Pub. Date: 2010
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0573662886
ISBN-13: 9780573662881
Cast Size: 3 female, 3 male

About the Play:

The Drunken City has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues, Male Monologues, Female/Male Scenes, and Male/Male Scenes.

The Drunken City is a full-length comedy by Adam Bock. Off on the bar crawl to end all crawls, three brides-to-be find their lives going topsy-turvy when one of them begins to question her future after a chance encounter with a recently jilted handsome stranger. The Drunken City is a wildly theatrical take on the mystique of marriage and the ever-shifting nature of love and identity.

The Drunken City follows three best friends out on the town for a bachelorette party in the big city near their suburban homes, and the ways in which all those pink drinks reveal the truth of their desires and the reality of their relationships. Marnie is going on a bar-hopping party with two of her best friends, Melissa and Linda, in celebration of her pending nuptials. Linda is also engaged, and Melissa was as well, but she abruptly broke up with her fiancé when she found out he was two-timing her. After they encounter strangers, Eddie and Frank, everything begins to fall apart. When the bride-to-be questions her upcoming wedding, it ripples through her friendships and creates a tectonic shift that they may not all recover from. The Drunken City explores friendship, marriage and honesty, and weaves a story about the challenges of facing who we really are.

The Drunken City premiered in 2008 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City, receiving an Outer Critics nomination for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and is regularly performed in regional and college theatre productions.

Cast: 3 female, 3 male

What people say:

"A lot of fun! Adam Bock's scalpel-sharp insight has made him a potent force on today's theater scene. Tart, smart, and intoxicating." — New York Sun

"A playful and hopeful comedy. Like the best episodes of Sex and the City, a little heartache goes well with hilarity." — New York Daily News

About the Playwright:

Adam Bock is a Canadian playwright currently living in the United States. He was born in Montreal and studied at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut. His many works produced off-Broadway have garnered an Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations.