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More Fun than Bowling

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 2m

"A very funny and eccentrically philosophical comedy. Mr. Dietz is a...writer with a distinct comic voice. He shows us that life and certainly death is a lot like bowling. For every experience, there seems to be an appropriate bowling expression just…

More Fun than Bowling

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 2m

Details

Summary
Jake owns the bowling alley in a small Midwestern town. He is sitting on a hilltop where two of his three wives are buried Lois was zapped by lightning while carrying a bowling trophy in a thunderstorm and Loretta was killed by a ball return machine where he comes to ruminate. In his younger days he was a promising concert musician but a foul tip baseball broke his fingers which subsequently healed into a perfect bowler's grip. Jake replays the key frames of his life and, from time to time, is visited by his daughter Molly who has become adept at talking women into marrying her father for love and free lane time. But who is that nattily dressed man with dark glasses and a revolver lurking nearby?
  • Cautions
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

"A very funny and eccentrically philosophical comedy. Mr. Dietz is a...writer with a distinct comic voice. He shows us that life and certainly death is a lot like bowling. For every experience, there seems to be an appropriate bowling expression just waiting to be applied. And for those who thought that bowling was merely a matter of rolling a ball and knocking down some pins, there is an Act II description of the zen of bowling that will change your thinking forever...In addition to inventing vivid cartoonish characters and giving them wacky tragic actions, Mr. Dietz is a master of the comic monologue." - The Washington Times

Licensing & Materials

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Authors

Steven Dietz

Steven Dietz’s 30+ plays and adaptations have been seen at over 100 regional theatres in the United States, as well as off-Broadway. International productions have been seen in over 20 countries. His work has been translated into a dozen languages. In 2019, Dietz was once aga ...

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