Synopsis
Isn't It Romantic
Published by Dramatists Play Service
4 Male 4 Female
Both are struggling to escape from lingering parental domination and to establish their own lives and identities. In Janie's case this leads to an inconclusive involvement with a young Jewish doctor who calls her "Monkey" while Harriet assails the world of big business and has an affair with her hard-driving - and married - boss
Told in a fast-moving series of inventive, alternately hilarious and touchingly revealing scenes, the play explores their parallel stories with uncommon wit and wisdom
This results, ultimately,in a heightened awareness which, while not providing all the answers, goes a long way toward achieving the maturity and self-assuredness that both protagonists so desperately desire
A brightly witty, trenchantly observant contemporary comedy which enjoyed the unique distinction of two critically - hailed Off- Broadway productions
The second a long-run, record-setting presentation which was the most successful in the history of New York's renowned Playwright's Horizons
"ISN'T IT ROMANTIC is romantic - also bright, funny, sentimental, and throughout, inching toward wisdom" - Time
"one of the funniest and most satisfying shows in townIf Dorothy Parker were a playwright today, she might have written this endearingly acid comedy" - Variety
"among the funniest and most inventive writers around" - The New Yorker
" a nouvelle cuisine comedy" - NY Times