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Life, A

  • Adam Bock
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Contemporary
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573706127

"Sympathetic and unsentimental, the play offers a wise, quietly devastating perspective on the stuff we carry and leave behind."

Time Out New York

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Nate Martin is hopelessly single. When his most recent breakup -- another in a lifelong string of ill-fated matches -- casts him into a funk, he turns to the only source of wisdom he trusts: the stars. Pouring over astrological charts, he obsessively questions his past and place in the cosmos. But in Adam Bock's disarming new play, the answer he receives, when it comes, is shockingly obvious -- and totally unpredictable.
REVIEWS:

FIVE STARS! "Sympathetic and unsentimental, the play offers a wise, quietly devastating perspective on the stuff we carry and leave behind."

 Time Out New York

"[...] quietly devastating [...] There's something absurdly endearing about a man who seems unaware of how desperately lonely he is, and who makes disturbing revelations about his life without recognizing the depths of his despair."

 Variety

"Nate's journey, as depicted during this quietly unnerving play, is one that can be unequivocally described as universal. It also preys on some of our deepest fears."

 TheaterMania

Premiere Production: A Life premiered at Playwrights Horizons in New York City in September 2016 under the direction of Anne Kaufman.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast

  • NATE MARTIN
    LORI MARTIN
    ALLISON
    CURTIS
    JOCELYN

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    Nate Martin is hopelessly single. When his most recent breakup -- another in a lifelong string of ill-fated matches -- casts him into a funk, he turns to the only source of wisdom he trusts: the stars. Pouring over astrological charts, he obsessively questions his past and place in the cosmos. But in Adam Bock's disarming new play, the answer he receives, when it comes, is shockingly obvious -- and totally unpredictable.

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