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Love Affair, A

  • Jerry Mayer
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573695551

An award winning romantic comedy brimming with hilarious as well as moving moments captured from a 38 year marriage.

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
This award winning romantic comedy is brimming with hilarious as well as moving moments captured from a 38 year marriage. As Jimmy and Alice Diamond clear out the attic of their Malibu home because a turn of finances is forcing them to move into a cramped condo, they find themselves reliving the flawed masterpiece that is their marriage.

A subtitle, with a smile, might be, "Till Debt do us Part."  Two pairs of actors play the Diamonds, (early and now, in their marriage) one young and one mature. Throughout, they observe and comment on each other. In one delightful scene, the four confront each other to negotiate the transition into middle age. The fifth cast member plays six different women who influence the Diamond marriage, offering a tour de force for an actress.

A Love Affair
is both a timeless and a timely play, because its story is about financial reverses and how they can either weaken or reinforce relationships, depending on how the difficult times are handled. It's a moving, identifiable story that rings true, while offering a multiplicity of laughs.  

REVIEWS:

"Terrific.... An illuminating look at a long-term marital relationship... Above all, we care about these people, which makes for a terrific evening of theater."

 Hollywood Reporter

"Zingy one liners keep the audience laughing. Critic's Choice."

 Drama Logue

"Warm of heart, quick of wit."

 Variety

"Mayer's witty dialogue is funny and endearing without falling into self-conscious shtick. An honest and insightful play that elicits shocks of recognition from the audience."

 The Star

Premiere Production: A Love Affair was first produced at the Santa Monica Playhouse, opening on October 10, 1991, in Santa Monica, CA. It was directed by Chris DeCarlo.
  • Casting: 2M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Ensemble cast, Flexible casting, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

  • JIMMY AND JIMMY II - The same guy at different times in the same life, from twenty-one to sixty. He travels from being naïve and eager, to disillusioned and comically bitter. No matter what curves life throws jimmy, he views them with edgy humor. Jimmy is capable but disorganized, constantly tripping over details. That's why he leaves them all to Alice.
  • ALICE AND ALICE II - The same girl from nineteen to fifty-eight. She's practical and organized and lovely and sexy. She's often frustrated with Jimmy, as he is with her, and totally in love with him, as he is with her.
  • ALL THE OTHER CHARACTERS are played by one talented actress, with lots of colors on her palette:
    DARLENE WELCH - secretary to Desi Arnaz
    GLO FRAZIER - beautiful, fortyish TV Star
    DR. CYNTHIA MCKNIGHT - capable gynecologist
    PAM GTREEN - a career oriented, upwardly mobile, Assistant TV Producer
    JULIA FIELD - an attorney who delivers bad news
    JENNIFER - sometimes actress, full time furniture mover
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    This award winning romantic comedy is brimming with hilarious as well as moving moments captured from a 38 year marriage. As Jimmy and Alice Diamond clear out the attic of their Malibu home because a turn of finances is forcing them to move into a cramped condo, they find themselves reliving the flawed masterpiece that is their marriage.

    A subtitle, with a smile, might be, "Till Debt do us Part."  Two pairs of actors play the Diamonds, (early and now, in their marriage) one young and one mature. Throughout, they observe and comment on each other. In one delightful scene, the four confront each other to negotiate the transition into middle age. The fifth cast member plays six different women who influence the Diamond marriage, offering a tour de force for an actress.

    A Love Affair
    is both a timeless and a timely play, because its story is about financial reverses and how they can either weaken or reinforce relationships, depending on how the difficult times are handled. It's a moving, identifiable story that rings true, while offering a multiplicity of laughs.  

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