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Writer's Block (Allen)

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4w, 6m

Woody Allen's hilarious one acts, Riverside Drive and Old Saybrook , make up Writer's Block, two absurdist takes on marital infidelity.

Writer's Block (Allen)

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 6m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary
Each play is an absurdist take on marital infidelity, one instance set on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the other in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Riverside Drive's Fred Savage, a homicidal, paranoid, schizophrenic vagrant ex-copywriter, has been stalking a screenwriter for weeks, convinced that his prey stole his idea - in fact, his life - to create a successful movie plot. In Old Saybrook, an orthodontist is hosting her sister and golf-mad brother-in-law, a plastic surgeon, at her grand suburban house. When a couple who once owned the building stops by, they spark an old fashioned sex farce that is full of verve and cunning.
History

Writer's Block premiered at The Atlantic Theater Company in New York City in March of 2003 under the direction of Woody Allen.

Riverside Drive
JIM
FRED
BARBARA

Old Saybrook
SHEILA
NORMAN
JENNY
DAVID
HAL
SANDY
MAX

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REVIEWS

"...sits dead center in the Woody Allen universe...where relatively affluent people grapple comically and paranoiacally with serious questions of love and lust...and the possibility of happiness given the inevitability of death." - The New York Times

"Full of funny material." - The New York Daily News 

"Non-stop one-liners." - Curtainup.com

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Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $75 per performance
    $125 with other plays in collection

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Authors

Woody Allen

Woody Allen, though best known for his films, has also enjoyed a very successful career in theater. His first great success was Don't Drink the Water, which opened in 1968, and ran for 598 performances for almost two years on Broadway. Play It Again, Sam opened in 1969, playe ...

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