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The Water's Edge

The Water's Edge
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Theresa Rebeck
Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 80
Pub. Date: 2007
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0573642478
ISBN-13: 9780573642470
Cast Size: 3 female, 2 male

About the Play:

The Water's Edge has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues.

The Water's Edge is a full-length drama by Theresa Rebeck. A man attempts to reconnect with a family from which he has been long-estranged. The reunion is complicated by the fact that his ex-wife believes he is responsible for a past tragedy. What happens when people believe that the only way to heal is to hurt?

The Water's Edge centers on a family coping with its grief. A scorned husband and father, Richard, has returned – with younger girlfriend Lucy in tow – to the family home he abandoned some 17 years ago. Now a wealthy investment manager, he wants to reclaim the lakeside home his father bequeathed him. The old place has tenants, however – his incensed ex-wife Helen and grown-up children, college dropout son Nate and hostile daughter Erica, still live there. Helen, who still blames him for a devastating loss in their family's past, decides to take matters into her own hands. But what is the trauma that still haunts the family? And will Richard's homecoming bring the much-needed chance for the family to heal, or are the memories and hurt of the past still too raw? With theatrical imagery and heightened emotions, this tense domestic drama turns shocking as a startling twist is revealed, leading to a stunning climax. Based loosely on a narrative in Aeschylus' Greek tragedy The Oresteia, The Water's Edge is a searing family drama about loss, grief, revenge, and repercussions.

The Water's Edge premiered in 2004 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, as part of their 50th anniversary season. The Off-Broadway premiere was in 2006 at Second Stage Theater in New York City and the West Coast premiere was in 2011 at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has been performed in regional, college, and community theatre productions.

Cast: 3 female, 2 male

What people say:

"A stylishly acted mix of classical darkness and latter-day levity! ...Theresa Rebeck has a gift for lively dialogue teasingly layered in ambivalence." — The New York Times

"A shocking hybrid of contemporary drama and Greek tragedy." — Newsday

"An absorbing domestic drama with smart, often dryly humorous dialogue." — Variety

"Compelling, brilliant and affecting! It must be seen! There is no question that Theresa Rebeck is one of the strongest playwrights of her generation." — Backstage

"In her thrilling two-act play Theresa Rebeck allows the right amount of foreshadowing. The Water's Edge marches along with a degree of inevitability, because it's certain things are not going to end well. But ... the beauty of Rebeck's craft is the thrill of watching this intensely raw family drama unfold." — ArtsBeat LA

About the Playwright:

Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, director, television writer, and novelist. She is the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time. Her plays include Bad Dates, Omnium Gatherum (co-written, Pulitzer finalist), Spike Heels, and Mauritius, which won Boston's prestigious IRNE and Elliot Norton Awards. Her work in television includes NYPD Blue for which she has won the Peabody, the Writer's Guild, and the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar awards.

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