Poor Behavior
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
- 2M, 2F
- ISBN: 9780573799945
A fierce and funny story about the unexpected ease of betrayal and the fragility of marriage.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre
REVIEWS:
"An indecently funny play!"
Variety
"If there's ever been theater that invites a discussion afterward over a glass or seven of wine, then Poor Behavior is it."
NBC4 New York
"A weekend getaway... provided your idea of a getaway is Napoleon's retreat from Russia."
The New York Times
Characters
- Casting: 2M, 2F
PETER - self-assured, funny, confident, very likeable; a caretaker.
MAUREEN - high-strung, narcissistic, often hysterical; has a ready self-pity.
ELLA - good-natured, passionate, idealistic, with just enough self-deception at her disposal.
IAN - Irish; has lived in the states for over ten years; bitter, funny, brilliant; he is angry at himself for all his bad decisions. Angry at the universe, too. Ready to burn the store to get what he wants. Is also wounded and vulnerable; it's important that his woundedness be seen.
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A weekend in the country spins out of control when jealous wife Maureen makes a reckless accusation about her husband Ian and their old friend Ella. Ella's husband Peter tries and fails to stop the domestic carnage in this fierce and funny story about the unexpected ease of betrayal and the fragility of marriage. |
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