Digital Only Price: U.S. $5.95 Dan Moses Schreier
Love Trouble
Series No.: x SMC 078
ISBN: 1-55713-198-8, Pages: 101
American Literature, Drama
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A Sun & Moon title. * * * Love Trouble is a darkly comic fairy tale about parenthood, love, and our fear of loss. Like the previous Jones/Schreier musical, Write If You Get Work, it features a stuffed animal protagonist--in this case a bear with the language and impulses of a two-year-old. The bear's miraculous delivery, courtesy of Pizza Queen (a faux-medieval fast-food chain), at first brings a bickering couple closer together. But the wife soon succumbs to a growing dread: that the creature will run away with the Pizza Queen the moment both humans fall asleep. When, inevitably, she loses the battle to stay awake, she has a dream in which she seems to find a happy resolution, only to awaken to the realization that her worst fears have come true.
Author of The Crazy Plays, Der Inka von Peru, Tomorrowland, Wipeout, and numerous other plays, Jeffrey M. Jones has been the Managing Director of the Wooster Group/Performing Garage; the Theater Program Director of Performing Artservices; Executive Director of Real Art Ways (Hartford, Connecticut); and President of the Board of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York. He is currently working on WordBasic development and hypertext documentation projects for Micro Modeling Associates, Inc., in New York.
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