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Quality of Life, The

  • Jane Anderson
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573696954

Playwright Jane Anderson explores a myriad of ethical, religious, and moral beliefs, as well as (some would say) personal rights issues concerning life and death in her remarkable and completely engrossing new play, The Quality of Life.

Terri Roberts, Theater Mania

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2007 LA Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award Outstanding New Play
    Winner! 2008 Ovation Award Best New Play
    Nominee! 2013 Jeff Awards Best Production of a Play
From award-winning writer Jane Anderson (The Baby Dance, Looking for Normal) comes this 'magnetic work of theater' (The San Francisco Chronicle) filled with compassion, honesty and humor. 

Dinah and Bill, a devout, church-going couple from the Midwest are struggling to keep their lives intact after the loss of their daughter. Dinah is compelled to reconnect with her left-leaning cousins in Northern California who're going through their own trials. Jeannette and Neil have lost their home to a wildfire and Neil has cancer. However they seem to have accepted their situation with astounding good humor, living in a yurt on their burn site and celebrating life with hits of pot and glasses of good red wine. Bill and Dinah are both moved and perplexed by their cousins' remarkable equanimity. But their sympathy turns to rage when they find out that Jeannette is planning to take her own life to avoid a life of grief without her beloved Neil.
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Set in the Berkeley hills after a major fire, Quality of Life introduces Jeannette, an earthy, high-spirited woman. Jeannette's husband, Neil , is dying of cancer. When her cousin Dinah from Ohio comes for a visit with her husband, Bill, the two couples - one solidly on the left, the other resolute in their conservative Christian beliefs - are made to confront their huge dissimilarities

Edward Guthman The San Francisco Chronicle

Playwright Jane Anderson explores a myriad of ethical, religious, and moral beliefs, as well as (some would say) personal rights issues concerning life and death in her remarkable and completely engrossing new play, The Quality of Life.

Terri Roberts Theater Mania
Premiere Production: The Quality of Life was first presented at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in October 2007. It was directed by the author.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F

DINAH & BILL - who live in Ohio.
JEANNETTE & NEIL - their cousins on the west coast.

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Quality of Life, The Script Order Now

From award-winning writer Jane Anderson (The Baby Dance, Looking for Normal) comes this 'magnetic work of theater' (The San Francisco Chronicle) filled with compassion, honesty and humor. Dinah and Bill, a devout, church-going couple from the Midwest are struggling to keep their lives intact after the loss of their daughter. Dinah is compelled to reconnect with her left-leaning cousins in Northern California who're going through their own trials. Jeannette and Neil have lost their home to a wildfire and Neil has cancer. However they seem to have accepted their situation with astounding good humor, living in a yurt on their burn site and celebrating life with hits of pot and glasses of good red wine. Bill and Dinah are both moved and perplexed by their cousins' remarkable equanimity. But their sympathy turns to rage when they find out that Jeannette is planning to take her own life to avoid a life of grief without her beloved Neil.

$24.95

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