num_pages: 72
description: LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY is a domestic drama of a troubled young wife who finds herself crossing through time—and identities—on a fateful winter evening in an empty apartment. (2 men, 2 women.) FOREPLAY THE ART OF THE FUGUE brings us Chuck, a would-be Don Juan, in three rounds of seduction with three different women on a miniature-golf course. (3 men, 3 women.) SEVEN MENUS shows a round-robin of relationships at a restaurant table, as demonstrated by a group of friends that change, couple by couple and course by course, throughout several different meals. (4 men, 4 women.) MERE MORTALS eavesdrops on a lunch hour on a girder fifty stories over the street, as three construction workers share increasingly amazing secrets of their past. (3 men.) SPEED-THE-PLAY is a crash-course send-up of David Mamet, presenting the complete works of the master of scatological dialogue in just under seven male-bonding minutes. (9 men, 2 women, flexible casting).
language: English
title: Long Ago and Far Away and Other Short plays - Acting Edition
titlecomplete: Long Ago and Far Away and Other Short plays - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)
genres: Plays
ratings_count: 24
publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.