Killjoy
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
- 3M, 3F
- ISBN: 9780573694134
"Quite lighthearted with clever twists... Jerry Mayer has been having hit after hit, focusing on the humor and drama of marriage."
Variety
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences, Adult, Senior
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Cautions: No Special Cautions
- Performance Group:
- Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
Carol is being driven crazy by her charming monster of an ex-husband, Victor, and his new wife, who employ every trick in the book to end Carol's thousand dollar a week alimony. Carol's quirky kids work at Victor's pasta restaurant chain, and Carol is sure Victor is bullying her son into an early grave. When Carol has a passionate affair with Victor's lawyer, they decide Victor has to die and the audience cheers its agreement.
REVIEWS:
"Quite lighthearted with clever twists... Jerry Mayer has been having hit after hit, focusing on the humor and drama of marriage."
Variety
"Killjoy slays with laughs in this tight tale of deception and torment."
Santa Monica Outlook
"Irrepressibly witty. Mayber's dialogue is crisp, clever and crunchy, sparkles with one line zingers."
Drama Logue
"It's nearly impossible to dislike Killjoy... Mayer has so skillfully given equal weight to the comedy and plot twists that neither seems forced, heavy or contrived."
Back Stage/West
"Jerry Mayer has been quietly having hit after hit, focusing on the humor and drama of marriage."
The Argonaut
"Jerry Mayer's comedies and their Santa Monica Playhouse stagings are marriages made in heaven... Irrepressibly witty. Mayer's dialogue is crisp, clever and crunchy... As a writer of great roles for loveable women, Mayer can't be beat."
Drama-Logue
Characters
- Casting: 3M, 3F
- Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Non-Traditional casting
- Casting Notes: FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT: Just a few words, not offered as dogma, but as shared info. I have found that this play is most effective when played realistically, not farcically. A very good director once told me that all good comedy is reality played with a "funny bone." Additionally, it's important that the audience finds things in each character to identify with, even the rotten ones. If played with urgency and conviction, none of these people will come off as "mean spirited," which is a catch phrase our friends the critics like to use when they're cranky. One final note and then I'm out of here. Pace is important, keep things moving. That same very good director once told me, "Pace is not talking faster or rushing things, pace is the elimination of the unnecessary." Good luck and have fun with it. That's me talking, not the very good director.
- Jerry Mayer
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Here is an unpredictable, hilarious romantic comedy/thriller with witty dialogue and fascinating characters. Carol is being driven crazy by her charming monster of an ex-husband, Victor, and his new wife, who employ every trick in the book to end Carol's thousand dollar a week alimony. Carol's quirky kids work at Victor's pasta restaurant chain, and Carol is sure Victor is bullying her son into an early grave. When Carol has a passionate affair with Victor's lawyer, they decide Victor has to die and the audience cheers its agreement. |
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