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Sunday on the Rocks

  • Theresa Rebeck
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, 1990s
  • 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573695537

"It's rare to encounter a domestic comedy that speaks to an entire generation, but Sunday on the Rocks hits a raw nerve for today's generation of Angry Young Women."

The Boston Globe

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

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

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
On a beautiful Sunday morning in mid-October, three housemates decide to have scotch for breakfast in this play by the author of Spike Heels, The Family of Mann, and Loose Knit

Elly is pregnant and considering an abortion, Jen is being harassed by a co-worker who is obsessed with her, and Gayle just feels a bit lost. Their problems are compounded by a fourth roommate, Jessica, a religious young woman who has little compassion for their confused attempts to make sense of life in the nineties. As they drink, joke, and argue it becomes clear how difficult it is to make a moral decision in an increasingly complex world.

REVIEWS:

"It's rare to encounter a domestic comedy that speaks to an entire generation, but Sunday on the Rocks hits a raw nerve for today's generation of Angry Young Women."

 The Boston Globe

"Goes down as smoothly and hits as hard as a gulp of good bourbon."

 South End News

Premiere Production: Premier production at Long Whard Theatre, May 3, 1994.
  • Casting: 4F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female

  • ELLY - A talkative, excitable woman, 30 years old.
    GAYLE - A woman of few words, intelligent and wry, 34.
    JEN - A loose, casual, very likable woman, 29.
    JESSICA - A slight, pretty, seemingly gentle woman with a will of iron, 30.
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    On a beautiful Sunday morning in mid-October, three housemates decide to have scotch for breakfast in this play by the author of Spike Heels, The Family of Mann, and Loose Knit

    Elly is pregnant and considering an abortion, Jen is being harassed by a co-worker who is obsessed with her, and Gayle just feels a bit lost. Their problems are compounded by a fourth roommate, Jessica, a religious young woman who has little compassion for their confused attempts to make sense of life in the nineties. As they drink, joke, and argue it becomes clear how difficult it is to make a moral decision in an increasingly complex world.

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