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Ties

Ties
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
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

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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