Sunday in Suburbia

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Meltzer, Daniel (American playwright, 19__-____), “Sunday in Suburbia,”

a 10-minute _____ in English, set in _____, 1998,

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© 1998 by Daniel Meltzer;

• in Daniel Meltzer’s Sunday in Suburbia (New York: The Author, 1998);

• script/rights available from Daniel Meltzer, _____, New York City, New York, U.S.A., e-mail _____, http://___, telephone ___-___-____, fax ___-___-____.

• Cited by Calactors.com, http://www.calactors.com/wc10festival.htm, accessed September 5, 2008.

• Also, cited by NEricksn@aol.com, athenews-request@lists.wayne.edu, http://.hawaii.edu/athe.

Dramatis Personae

Stu (m), __, husband, a salesman; Michael (m), __, Phyllis’ “handyman”; Phyllis (f), __, wife.

Synopsis

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Comment

New York City playwright Daniel Meltzer’s “Sunday in Suburbia,” the second-place winner, is more original, although its absurdism is derivative of both Christopher Durang and Eugene Ionesco. Charlie DeNatale plays Stu, a salesman preparing to head to work from the pleasant home he shares with wife Phyllis (Leslie Williams). Then odd things begin to happen. Stu can’t figure out why Michael (Scott Cunningham), Phyllis’ “handyman,” is now living with them and apparently performing, ah, services that Stu used to. Domestic harmony is ticklish, and a little creepy, as directed by Ian Downs. [Mark Chalon Smith]—Too Little in Camino Real's Brief '6 at 8' - Los Angeles Times, http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jun/19/entertainment/ca-61374, accessed September 6, 2008.

Themes

handyman, marriage, ménage à trois, suburbia, Sunday.