Robert Patrick
When a computer matched man and woman meet via long distance television, a transmission time lag results in crossed questions and crooked answers, misunderstandings, tears, and a surprise resolution. Overtones of totalitarianism, over population, regimentation and the communication gap surround the play's wry comments on the nature of the sexes. A natural for contests or wherever a strong, short entertainment is required, this classic play is effective on a bare stage or in an elaborate production.
Published in the collection Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatricks, part of Lights, Camera, Action.
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Robert Patrick (1927-2023), son of migrant workers in the Southwest, wandered at 24 into the Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village during his first half-hour in Manhattan on September 14, 1961. He was for three years an unpaid “temple slave” in that first off-off-Broadway theater w ...
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