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Are You Sure?

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  3w, 3m

"Sam Bobrick has used his considerable experience and dexterity as a playwright to thread the lines between the indefinite categories of reality and fantasy, gamesmanship and seriousness, even between theater and fact." - L.A. Times

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Mystery/Thriller
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary
Are You Sure? is a case of shifting realities. How much is happening, how much isn't? Does David want to kill Caroline? Does Charlie want to kill David? Does Caroline want to kill everyone? The play mixes comedy with high suspense as the audience tries to figure out what to believe and who to believe. One thing is for sure - someone did it.
History

Are You Sure? premiered at the Back Alley Theatre in Los Angeles, California in 1983.

CAROLINE OGDEN - an attractive woman in her mid-forties
DAVID OGDEN - her handsome husband, also in his mid-forties
SIMON ALDEN - Caroline's father, mid-sixties
MARIE - a maid, in her mid-sixties
STEFANIE - Caroline's beautiful daughter, late twenties
CHARLIE BRADSHAW - good looking man in his mid-thirties

Stefanie, the beautiful young daughter, also plays a younger version of Marie, the maid.

Marie, the older maid also plays Caroline's mother (not listed as a character).

  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
  • Setting TIME: The present.
    PLACE: An elegant library in a well-appointed English home.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

REVIEWS

"Sam Bobrick has used his considerable experience and dexterity as a playwright to thread the lines between the indefinite categories of reality and fantasy, gamesmanship and seriousness, even between theater and fact." - Los Angeles Times

"A clever and literate theatrical Rubik's cube [...] Pick of the Week." - L.A. Weekly

"A Chinese ring trick [...] Fantastical phantasmagoria." - Drama Logue

"Lucidly crafted." - Hollywood Reporter

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

Sam Bobrick

Sam Bobrick (www.sambobrick.com) has written and co-written over forty plays, most of them performed throughout the world, which include: Norman, Is That You?, Murder at the Howard Johnson's, Weekend Comedy, Remember Me?, Death in England, Passengers, Are You Sure?, Baggage, ...

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