One Shoe Off - Softcover

This compelling comedy about marriage, fidelity, adulterous longings, existential panic, and the theatre takes place in Leonard and Dinah's up-state New York Greek revival farmhouse where slow-moving disintegration is at work. Rooms are drifting into each other, and trees have taken root indoors. Leonard is an actor who hasn't worked in eleven years; Dinah is an overworked costume designer who can't dress herself. They have invited their new neighbors, an overworked editor and his movie starlet wife, for dinner. Things explode when Parker Bliss, an old friend of the hosts' and a successful movie director, drops in. Old memories stir and new passions kindle as vegetables and Dinah's costumes fly. Casting requires three males, two females, and the set calls for one interior. Appropriate for little theatre groups, this "high comedy" from the inventive mind of Tina Howe covers love, art, acting, survival, nursery tales, and ghost stories. This Samuel French softcover "acting" edition (90 pages) also has notes from Ms. Howe about the set, props, and costumes.