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Jake's Women

  • Neil Simon
  • Full Length Play, Comedy
  • 1M, 7F
  • ISBN: 9780573694356

Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction that with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
America's premier comic playwright makes another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships.

Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. 

The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females. Jake's women include a revered first wife who was killed years earlier in an accident, his daughter who is recalled as a child but is now a young woman, his boisterous and bossy sister, an opinionated analyst, his current wife who is leaving Jake for another man, and a prospective third wife.

Jake, played by Alan Alda on Broadway, and his women definitely deliver.

REVIEWS:

"One of Simon's best."

 The Los Angeles Times

"Fantastically funny... Jake's Women are a wonderful crowd."

 The New York Post

"Full of funny lines."

 The New Yorker

"Wit and wisecracks aplenty."

UPI

"Spending time with Jake's Women is a wholly justifiable diversion for the audience as well as the protagonist."

 The New York Daily News

Premiere Production: Jake's Women premiered on Broadway on March 24th, 1992 at the Neil Simon Theatre under the direction of Gene Saks.
  • Casting: 1M, 7F

  • JAKE
    MAGGIE
    KAREN
    MOLLY (at 12)
    MOLLY (at 21)
    EDITH
    JULIE
    SHEILA
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    America's premier comic playwright makes another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships.

    Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life. 

    The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females. Jake's women include a revered first wife who was killed years earlier in an accident, his daughter who is recalled as a child but is now a young woman, his boisterous and bossy sister, an opinionated analyst, his current wife who is leaving Jake for another man, and a prospective third wife.

    Jake, played by Alan Alda on Broadway, and his women definitely deliver.

    "Fantastically funny... Jake's Women are a wonderful crowd." - The New York Post

    "Full of funny lines." - The New Yorker

    "One of Simon's best." - The Los Angeles Times

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