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Love/Stories (or: But You Will Get Used To It)

Collection / Anthology, Dramatic Comedy  /  3w, 2m

A casting session for a play about a love affair goes awry. A talk-back with a theatre audience becomes the occasion for a life-altering choice. A couple moving in together finds that greater intimacy can be a mixed blessing. Metatheatrical antics abound in Itamar Moses’ collection of thought-provoking short plays.

Love/Stories (or: But You Will Get Used To It)

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

A casting session for a play about a love affair goes awry. A talk-back with a theatre audience becomes the occasion for a life-altering choice. A couple moving in together finds that greater intimacy can be a mixed blessing when even the surface of their dialogue is stripped away. Metatheatrical antics abound in Itamar Moses’ Love/Stories (or: But You Will Get Used To It), five one-act meditations on modern love and on the act of telling stories — in which a variety of inventive devices stresses the ineradicable gap between art and experience.

Love/Stories (or: But You Will Get Used To It) includes the plays Chemistry Read, Temping, Authorial Intent, Szinhaz and Untitled Short Play.

History

Love/Stories premiered at the Flea Theatre in New York on 25 January 2009.

Cast Attributes

MAN 1 – Plays ACTOR 2 (Chemistry Read), GUY (Temping) and B (Authorial Intent)
MAN 2 – Plays WRITER (Chemistry Read), ISTVAN (Szinhaz) and MAN (Untitled Short Play)
MAN 3 – Plays ACTOR 1 (Chemistry Read) and THE READER (in Untitled Short Play and in all transitions)
WOMAN 1 – Plays ACTRESS (Chemistry Read), A (Authorial Intent) and WOMAN (Untitled Short Play)
WOMAN 2 – Plays DIRECTOR (Chemistry Read), GIRL (Temping) and MARIE (Szinhaz)

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    Various settings on-stage and off.

  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Duration 90 minutes

Media

“A hell of a lot of fun.” – Variety

“A delightful romp through how we speak with one another when we are getting into and out of love.” – Let’s Talk Off-Broadway

Authors

Itamar Moses

Itamar Moses is the author of the full-length plays Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets, Back Back Back, Completeness and The Whistleblower, the musicals Nobody Loves You (with Gaby Alter), Fortress of Solitude (with Michael Friedman) and Th ...

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