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Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 3m
Sarah Ruhl
Tilly’s melancholy is of an exquisite quality. She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, wreaking havoc on the lives of her paramours.
Sarah Ruhl is the 2003 recipient of the Whiting Award for Drama!
Tilly’s melancholy is of an exquisite quality. She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Frances, Tilly’s hairdresser, becomes so melancholy that she turns into an almond. It is up to Tilly to get her back.
Also available as a musical called Melancholy Play: a chamber musical.
Illinois. Many windows, a chaise, and several doors. Present Day.
“Whimsical, surrealistic, even absurdist… Melancholy Play actually affords considerable psychological insight.” – Dallas News
“A rumination on love in relation to a kind of existential tristesse, a romantic sadness more embraced by Europeans than us think-positive Americans, Melancholy Play bears the markings of a young dramatist, laying the groundwork for themes and effects she will revisit often… as her career continues.” – Seattle Times
“A gentle misery-loves-company fable of high wit.” – Chicago On the Aisle
“If you’ve never experienced Sarah Ruhl’s work before – or if you’ve wondered what all the fuss over the lauded American playwright is about – Melancholy Play is a good place to start. This early work… is whimsical, surrealistic, even absurdist somewhat in the mode of Eugene Ionesco. You worry that bad things happen to good people? Here really strange things happen to all people… Giddy as it is, Melancholy Play actually affords considerable psychological insight.” – Dallas News
Sarah Ruhl on Melancholy Play
Melancholy Play – Highlights, Constellation Theatre Company
Melancholy Play – Scene Excerpt, Constellation Theatre Company
Melancholy Play – College Preview, University of Michigan
Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Clean House, Passion Play, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Melancholy Play, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, The Oldest Boy, Stage Kiss, Dear Elizabeth, Eurydice, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Orlando, Late ...
by Sarah Ruhl, Todd Almon...
Sarah Ruhl, Todd Almond
by Sarah Ruhl
by Lauren Yee
Lauren Yee