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Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her

"Harold Pinter's Betrayal the way Neil Simon would write it."

Newark Star Ledger

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Dinner Theatre, Professional Theatre
This wild bedroom farce involves infidelity, double standards, midnight rendezvous and a hungry bear. 

Danny and Kathy halt their night of sultry passion when Kathy reveals she is dating another man. Paul and Jennifer play a mad slapstick scene of frustration because she is reluctant to cheat on her husband. Bill and Mary, a couple about to celebrate their twenty ninth wedding anniversary are at odds: Mary yearns for a night of passion while Bill yearns to be left alone. To make matters more interesting, Paul's best friend is Danny who is married to Jennifer who is having an affair with Paul who is dating Kathy who is Danny's mistress and Jennifer's sister. 

In Act Two they all weekend at Bill and Mary's!
REVIEWS:

"Harold Pinter's Betrayal the way Neil Simon would write it."

Newark Star Ledger

"Punch line follows punch line and just when you think a gag has peaked, Van Zandt and Milmore come up with a topper."

Asbury Park Press

"If you hate to laugh, stay away... There's just no stopping the chuckles and guffaws."

The New Jersey Daily Register

Premiere Production: Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her opened at the Dam Site Dinner-Theater, Tinton Falls, NJ on June 11, 1982. It was produced by Kathy Reed and directed by Billy Van Zandt.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F

  • KATHY
    DANNY
    JENNIFER
    PAUL
    MARY
    BILL

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    This wild bedroom farce involves infidelity, double standards, midnight rendezvous and a hungry bear. Danny and Kathy halt their night of sultry passion when Kathy reveals she is dating another man. Paul and Jennifer play a mad slapstick scene of frustration because she is reluctant to cheat on her husband. Bill and Mary, a couple about to celebrate their twenty ninth wedding anniversary are at odds: Mary yearns for a night of passion while Bill yearns to be left alone. To make matters more interesting, Paul's best friend is Danny who is married to Jennifer who is having an affair with Paul who is dating Kathy who is Danny's mistress and Jennifer's sister. In Act Two they all weekend at Bill and Mary's!

    		$24.95

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