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Linda Vista

  • Tracy Letts
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day
  • 3M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573707193

Complicated, painful and hilarious, Tracy Letts' new comedy explores sex, love and masculinity as hapless 50-year-old Wheeler reconciles the man he has become with the man he wants to be.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre
Wheeler is 50. His marriage is over, his job is mundane, and the best years of his life appear to be behind him. A move from the cot in his ex-wife’s garage to his own apartment opens up new possibilities for love and sex—complicated, painful and hilarious. Full of opinions, yet short on self-examination, Wheeler must reconcile the man he has become with the man he wants to be.
REVIEWS:

"Very funny, equally unsettling… [an] inspired, ruthless take on the classic midlife-crisis comedy."

 The New York Times

"Knowing, prickly, and altogether hilarious… The dialogue is razor sharp and positively laced with laughter… a strong, warmly human and emotionally satisfying comedy of crotchety manners."

 New York Stage Review

"Letts excels at character, dialogue and psychology — the fundamentals of dramatic construction."

 The Los Angeles Times

"Clever and entertaining chronicle of a mid-life trainwreck."

 The Hollywood Reporter

"Reinvents the midlife crisis play with a hilarity that scalds."

 The New York Times

Premiere Production: Linda Vista opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on October 10, 2019. Directed by Dexter Bullard, the production featured Ian Barford as Wheeler.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

  • WHEELER, 50
    PAUL, 50
    MICHAEL, mid-50s
    ANITA, mid-30s
    MINNIE, 20s
    MARGARET, 50
    JULES, late 30s

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    Wheeler is 50. His marriage is over, his job is mundane, and the best years of his life appear to be behind him. A move from the cot in his ex-wife’s garage to his own apartment opens up new possibilities for love and sex—complicated, painful and hilarious. Full of opinions, yet short on self-examination, Wheeler must reconcile the man he has become with the man he wants to be.

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