Long Ago and Far Away and Other Short Plays

Foreplay or: The Art of the Fugue brings us Chuck, a would-be Don Juan, in three rounds of seduction with three different women on a miniature-golf course (3M, 3W)

Seven Menus shows a round-robin of relationships at a restaurant table, as demonstrated by a group of friends that change, couple by couple and course by course, throughout several different meals (4 M, 4W)

Mere Mortals eavesdrops on a lunch hour on a girder 50 stories over the street, as three construction workers share increasingly amazing secrets of their past (3M)

Speed-The-Play ~ is a crash-course send-up of David Mamet, presenting the complete works of the master of scatological dialogue in just under seven, male-bonding minutes (9M, 2W, flexible casting)

Comedy and drama come together in this volume of plays by the award-winning playwright

REVIEWS

"The best work is Seven Menus, the clever staging and the compression of the one-act form give a biting sense of the instability of contemporary urban existence" ~ The Record

In Foreplay "David Ives has composed an intricate pattern of dialogue, tracing three separate scenes, or are they seductions? It's a well crafted sextet" ~ Show Business