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Gun-Shy
Gun-Shy
"a Private Lives for our time" —New York Magazine

"Gun-Shy...grabs you from the moment the lights go up and never lets go." —The Miami Herald

"stiletto-sharp dialogue" —The New York Times

"out-and-out funny" —Variety
Comedy. By Richard Dresser.

Cast: 3m., 2w. Remember your first marriage? It's back. Gun-Shy is a no-holds-barred comedy about marriage, divorce, infidelity, infertility, incompatibility, eternal love, household accidents, and diets no one should try. New York Magazine calls Gun-Shy "a Private Lives for our time." Evie and Duncan have divorced after 15 years. Evie is having a wild, tumultuous affair with an aggressively insecure coffee salesman named Carter. Duncan finds himself with Caitlin, a young, extremely, weight-conscious gun-control lobbyist. "The foursome, all beyond therapy, eventually become snowbound in a New England cabin where they attempt to unravel the maze of their mismatched couplings. Acerbic barbs accumulate with the density of the ongoing blizzard" (Variety). When the dust clears, Evie and Duncan's divorce is in shambles and true love endures. Variety wrote: "Gun-Shy, Dresser's edgy comedy about a divorced couple whose separation proves as unsuccessful as their marriage, features the playwright's wonderfully barbed dialogue and characters whose quirks never stay into cartoon-land… Dresser's one-liners hit the comic mark." Gun-Shy premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and ran at Playwrights Horizons in New York. Flexible set. Two acts.

Play details
Status:  In Stock
Type of show:  Full-Length
Catalog Code:  G63
Cast Size:  5
No. of Act(s):  2
Pages:  71
Royalty:  $65.00 /perf.*
Cost:  $7.50
Categories
Target Audience: High School * College and Adult
Performing Group: College Theatre * Community Theatre * Stock & Lort
Genre: Comedy
ISBN (10): 0871298791
Biographies
Richard Dresser's plays are widely produced in New York, regional theater and Europe. His recently published trilogy of plays about happiness in America includes Augusta (working class), The Pursuit of Happiness (middle class) and A View of the Harbor (upper class). Other plays are Rounding Third, which appeared off-Broadway after regional productions in Chicago (Northlight Theater) and The Old Globe, ...More
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This title can only be licensed/sold in the U.S. and Canada
Please note that royalties quoted in our catalog are intended for K-12 schools with a standard curriculum only. All other producing groups must submit a completed application.


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