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Rose's Dilemma

  • Neil Simon
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573602627

In her beach house in the Hamptons, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a crossroads: she hasn't written anything in years and money is getting short.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre
In her beach house in the Hamptons, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a crossroads: she hasn't written anything in years and money is getting short. Her former lover, literary lion Walsh McLaren, offers her - from beyond the grave - an opportunity to regain her celebrity and gross millions.

It's not going to be easy and a "ghost" writer is required, setting in motion another touching and unpredictable romantic theatrical by America's premier Pulitzer-Prize-winning comic playwright.

REVIEWS:

"Mr. Simon is still producing a brand of comedy that takes the sting out of mortal fears."

 The New York Times

Premiere Production: Rose's Dilemma premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club in November 2003 under the direction of Lynn Meadow.
  • Casting: 2M, 2F

  • ROSE - a struggling writer
    ARLENE - Rose's daughter and her assistant
    WALSH - Rose's former lover, a ghost
    CLANCY - an aspiring young novelist
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    In her beach house in the Hamptons, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a crossroads: she hasn't written anything in years and money is getting short. 

    Her former lover, literary lion Walsh McLaren, offers her - from beyond the grave - an opportunity to regain her celebrity and gross millions.

    It's not going to be easy and a "ghost" writer is required, setting in motion another touching and unpredictable romantic theatrical by America's premier Pulitzer-Prize-winning comic playwright.

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