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Meteor Shower

  • Steve Martin
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, 1990s
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573707025

"Mr. Martin is peerless at crafting tiny wit bombs, and always has been [...] It's definitely funny!"

The New York Times

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  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: 1990s
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
Corky and Norm are excited to host Gerald and Laura at their home in the valley outside Los Angeles to watch a one-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. But as the stars come out and the conversation gets rolling, it becomes clear that Gerald and Laura might not be all that they appear to be. Over the course of a crazy, starlit dinner party, the wildly unexpected occurs. The couples begin to flirt and insanity reigns.

Martin, using his trademark absurdist humor, blends the fluid nature of time and reality to create a surprising and unforgettably funny new play.

REVIEWS:

"Mr. Martin is peerless at crafting tiny wit bombs, and always has been [...] It's definitely funny!"

 The New York Times

"Meteor Shower is a very funny play. Keening-like-a-howler-monkey funny. Design-a-new-cry-laughing-emoji funny."

 Entertainment Weekly

"Meteor Shower sparks with the same anarchic energy as Martin's reckless comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile."

 Deadline

Premiere Production: Meteor Shower premiered at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA in July 2016 under the direction of Gordon Edelstein.
  • Casting: 2M, 2F

  • NORM
    CORKY
    GERALD
    LAURA
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    Corky and Norm are excited to host Gerald and Laura at their home in the valley outside Los Angeles to watch a one-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. But as the stars come out and the conversation gets rolling, it becomes clear that Gerald and Laura might not be all that they appear to be. Over the course of a crazy, starlit dinner party, the wildly unexpected occurs. The couples begin to flirt and insanity reigns.

    Martin, using his trademark absurdist humor, blends the fluid nature of time and reality to create a surprising and unforgettably funny new play.

    $24.95