Best Warm Beer in Brooklyn, The
- Short Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
- 3M
- ISBN: 9780573623592
This wild farce is about two friends who are reunited late one night in Joey's bar.
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Description
- Short Play
- Comedy
- 30 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
This wild farce is about two chums, Joey and Eddie, who are reunited late one night in Joey's bar. Eddie tells Joey about the bizarre, horrible things he's subjected himself to so that he might suffer enough to create a masterpiece novel. Stoic Joey reveals that inside he's the one who is really suffering. To help each other, they form an insane plan "kill two birds with one rock." The outcome is hilarious.
Published in New York Stories: Five Plays About Life in New York.
Published in New York Stories: Five Plays About Life in New York.
Premiere Production:
The Best Warm Beer in Brooklyn was originally presented at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York as a work-in-progress in April 1986, under the direction of the author.
The play received its first full production at the West Bank Cafe Downstairs Theatre Bar in New York on February 14, 1989, directed by Steve Rankin.
Characters
- Casting: 3M
- Casting Attributes: All Male, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
EDDIE - the writer; unshaven; frayed; driven by a 'vision'
THE BIG TEXAN - pissed; justice to him is his rifle, which he carries in a gun rack in his El Camino...along with the spurs that hang from his rear-view mirror.
