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Swimming in the Shallows

  • Adam Bock
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: ps728

"A sweetly absurdist view of life... By staying resolutely in shallow, frolicsome waters, the play manages to achieve something unexpectedly, if quietly, profound."

David Ng, Village Voice

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 85 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Weissberger Award
    Winner! Clauder Competition
    Nominee! GLAAD Award
Barb finds out that Buddhist monks in Thailand only own eight things -- and wonders if that is all she wants. She starts giving away her things but her husband Bob keeps buying her new ones.

Donna wants Carla Carla to marry her, but Carla Carla doesn't like that Donna smokes.

Nick meets a shark at the aquarium -- they go on a date to the beach and Nick tries not to sleep with the shark too fast. Plus dream sequences. Plus a wedding.
REVIEWS:

"Bock tells his fairy tale in a surreal idiom that shows wit and imagination. Working with a loose-limed structure of episodic scenes, [he] focuses on cute characters caught up in winsome gay love stories deriving considerable charm from their oddball humor."

Marilyn Stasio, Variety

"Filled with highly-idiosyncratic characters and uproarious situations, Bock traverses a contemporary world of gay weddings, heterosexual marriages, and American capitalism."

J. Cooper Robb, TheaterMania

"A screwy little jewel of a play... It's as unconventional a conventional look at love as you'll find."

Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

"A sweetly absurdist view of life... By staying resolutely in shallow, frolicsome waters, the play manages to achieve something unexpectedly, if quietly, profound."

David Ng, Village Voice

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Non-Traditional casting

Available Material

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Swimming in the Shallows Script Order Now

Barb finds out that Buddhist monks in Thailand only own eight things -- and wonders if that is all she wants. She starts giving away her things but her husband Bob keeps buying her new ones. Donna wants Carla Carla to marry her, but Carla Carla doesn't like that Donna smokes. Nick meets a shark at the aquarium -- they go on a date to the beach and Nick tries not to sleep with the shark too fast. Plus dream sequences. Plus a wedding.

$24.95

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