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Ties
Ties
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Author: Jeffrey Sweet Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 73 Pub. Date: 1982 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822211491 ISBN-13: 9780822211495 Cast Size: 2 female, 6 male
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About
the Play:
Ties
has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Male/Male Scenes.
Ties
is a full-length drama by Jeffrey Sweet. This richly
imaginative and probing play explores the problems created for
himself – and others – when a down-on-his-luck New York theatre
director is invited to teach and direct at a small Midwestern
college. He navigates the new relationships he finds himself in with
little caution, until he finds his view on life being unwittingly
changed by the community and people around him.
Ties
follows the story of Walker, whose New York theatre career is at a
standstill. Invited by an old friend, who is now a faculty member, to
guest-direct a student production at a small Midwestern college,
Walker, warily accepts. Sharp-witted, humorously caustic and bohemian
in conduct, Walker quickly shakes up the tightly knit academic
community, which his candour sweeps across like a hurricane. While
hard-pressed to fathom Walker's laid-back nature, the others,
students and faculty alike, quickly find themselves confiding in him,
and emotional attachments soon develop – principally one between
Walker and his friend's divorced sister, an affair which dashes the
hopes of another young professor and yet is doomed, for both, by the
ghosts of past loves. In time the central questions are whether
Walker will accept an offer to stay on at the college, and, beyond
that, how he will deal with the possibility of another kind of love
put forth by his old friend – and it is in the working out of these
questions that the warmth and wit and sensitivity of this deftly
written play are realized to their fullest.
Ties
premiered in 1981 at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. The play has
become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and
workshops and has
been
performed
in regional repertory, college, and community theatre productions.
Cast:
2 female, 6 male
What
people say:
"It's
an original work that's also the genuine article, a drama of solid
craft and sensitive artistry…." — Chicago Tribune
"Sweet
has an uncanny knack for dialogue that unobtrusively leads you into
his characters. Ties is a must-see." —
Chicago Guide
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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