Samuel French, Inc -- playscriptNew York -- ©1978 -- 92pp
ISBN: 0573110476
Three bedrooms, four couples, one night, and a series of dyfunctional relationships and misunderstandings lends itself to this two act comedy.
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While this play seems to have all the ingredients needed for a farce (including the word 'farce' in the title), it strikes me as possibly a very difficult play to stage in farce style.
I think the idea of skewing time and location through the use of three bedrooms on the stage, is a wonderful vehicle. Making the important plot points occur solely in the bedrooms is difficult and maybe even a little forced at times. However, it is certainly easier to be told that there are hundreds of party guests 'downstairs' rather than seeing them.
The relationships are appropriately convoluted for a theatrical vehicle, although none of them stand out as being people we really care about.
It would be very interesting to see this done. Judging by the reviews of staged productions that I've perused on-line, it hasn't been done particularly well -- lacking in pacing and getting caught up in the relationships' quagmire.
Still, I'd recommend this as an insightful read for comic theatre, and would consider staging it.
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