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Private Ear, The

  • Peter Shaffer
  • Short Play, Comedy, Present Day
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573624179

Produced on Broadway and in London with The Public Eye, this is a tender account of a rueful romance.

  • Short Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
Produced on Broadway and in London with The Public Eye, this is a tender account of a rueful romance.

The boy has invited to his hovel for dinner a girl he met at a concert. In the interim he has romaticized her as another Venus, and not to appear gauche, he has asked his man about town friend to coach him. When the girl arrives, she is a very common sort and he is awkward to the point of clumsiness, and destroys the mood. She slaps him for trying to kiss her forcibly. She departs, and he returns to his record, now badly scratched, and the curtain descends on a broken love song.

REVIEWS:

"Delightful...are deftly contrived, cheerfully entertaining."

 NY Herald Tribune

Premiere Production:

The Private Ear was originally produced with The Public Eye by H.M. Tennent at the Globe Theatre in London on May 10, 1962.

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    Produced on Broadway and in London with The Public Eye, this is a tender account of a rueful romance.

    The boy has invited to his hovel for dinner a girl he met at a concert. In the interim he has romaticized her as another Venus, and not to appear gauche, he has asked his man about town friend to coach him. When the girl arrives, she is a very common sort and he is awkward to the point of clumsiness, and destroys the mood. She slaps him for trying to kiss her forcibly. She departs, and he returns to his record, now badly scratched, and the curtain descends on a broken love song.

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