Synopsis

The Best of Everything

The Best of Everything $13

Julie Kramer from Rona Jaffe

Published by Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 6 Female

"It's Stage Door in a Mad Men world, with a jigger of Peyton Place" ~ Time Out NY

A new adaptation of Rona Jaffe's 1958 bestseller about ambitious secretaries in the big city

These girls want thrilling careers and gay adventures-and husbands and children too, in due time

Today we call that "having it all"

These girls call it "the best of everything"

And they're not sure it's possible either

Reviews

"To my surprised pleasure, The Best of Everything is neither a delirious sendup nor a mordant, finger-wagging deconstruction. It's a respectful, hysteria-free, streamlined and appealingly modest effort that lets Jaffe's working girls speak for themselves ... The whole show is refreshingly free of the 'aren't-we-clever' self-consciousness that often accompanies such excursions into pop-culture past ... This approach gently and divertingly reminds us that Jaffe's novel focused a clear and abidingly useful gaze on women caught in a moment in time that isn's as distant as you might suppose" ~ NY Times

" ... a bubble bath whose froth conceals some pretty dirty water" ~ Time Out NY

"This clever adaptation of Rona Jaffe's novel about secretaries in the 1950s is an absolute treat ... nimbly lives up to its title" ~ TheaterMania

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