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Sideways

  • Rex Pickett
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 1990s
  • 3M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573706936

"A sublime variation on the buddy road movie, infusing the midlife crises of the two main protagonists with hope and poetry."

New York Post

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1990s
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
A wine-tasting road trip to salute the final days of bachelorhood careens woefully sideways as two friends hit the gas en-route to mid-life crises.

The comically mismatched pair, who share little more than their history and a heady blend of failed potential and fading youth, soon find themselves drowning in wine and women. Emerging from a haze of Pinot Noir, wistful yearnings, and trepidation about their future, the two inevitably collide with reality.
REVIEWS:

"A sublime variation on the buddy road movie, infusing the midlife crises of the two main protagonists with hope and poetry."

 New York Post

"Hysterically funny yet melancholy comedy."

 Hollywood Reporter

"More involvingly intimate than the movie."

 LA Weekly

"Every word is pure prose poetry [...] should be high on your list of plays to see [...]"

 Santa Monica Mirror

Premiere Production: Sideways premiered at the Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, CA in May 2012 under the direction of Amelia Mulkey.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)

  • MILES - 39, introverted, intellectual
    JACK - 40, ebullient, extroverted
    MAYA - 35, intuitive, deep, soulful
    TERRA - late 20s/early 30s, coquettish
    PHYLLIS / CHARLIE / EVELYN
    LISSY / ROSIE / VICTORIA
    CHRIS / DARYL / POURER

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    A wine-tasting road trip to salute the final days of bachelorhood careens woefully sideways as two friends hit the gas en-route to mid-life crises. The comically mismatched pair, who share little more than their history and a heady blend of failed potential and fading youth, soon find themselves drowning in wine and women. Emerging from a haze of Pinot Noir, wistful yearnings, and trepidation about their future, the two inevitably collide with reality.

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