How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
- 4M, 4F
- ISBN: 9780573706547
"This new play is a subversive enchantment. It is part absurd domestic serio-comedy, part erotic magic realism, unflinching about taboos and about questioning that, just maybe, monogamy isn't enough."
Newsday
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Cautions: Drugs, Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
How to Transcend a Happy Marriage blurs the lines of monogamy and asks how deeply friends, lovers, and strangers connect.
REVIEWS:
"How to Transcend a Happy Marriage has a charming phantasmagorical finish that points out the conflict between our animal nature and the societal norms we create to control it."
BroadwayWorld
"Audiences are receiving a comprehensive education in the polyamorous lifestyle in Sarah Ruhl's whimsical and spiritual domestic drama, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage [...] for those willing to take the ride, the play is a provocative and poetic meditation on being caught between reasonably happy domesticity and untapped, unacknowledged desires."
AM New York
"This new play is a subversive enchantment. It is part absurd domestic serio-comedy, part erotic magic realism, unflinching about taboos and about questioning that, just maybe, monogamy isn't enough."
Newsday
"[...] provocative and enlightening [...] How to Transcend a Happy Marriage abounds with situations that lead its characters to say the most quotable things, all of which should be experiences live in the theater and not in any critic's review. They're that memorable."
The Wrap
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 4F
- Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting, Cross gender casting, Non-Traditional casting
- Casting Notes: I think that JANE and GEORGE are women and MICHAEL and PAUL are men, but you could change their genders if you want.
MICHAEL
GEORGE (GEORGIA)
PAUL
Four people in their late thirties or early forties. Race and ethnicity immaterial.
PIP - A beautiful woman, named Deborah. Known to all as Pip. (She can dance and sing and slaughter animals and also play a teenager named Jenna.)
DAVID (pronounced Dah-veed) and FREDDIE - Two men who Pip has a polyamorous relationship with. David is a mathematician. I don't know what Freddie is but he doesn't know either.
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At a dinner party in New Jersey, two couples discuss polyamory as brought up by the introduction of a new temp, Pip, in Jane's office. When they invite Pop and her two male partners, discussion turns to action and the exploration of unexplored desire turns animalistic, and then Jane's daughter sees it all. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage blurs the lines of monogamy and asks how deeply friends, lovers, and strangers connect. |
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