Breaking up is Hard to Do

by  Snee, Dennis

Published: 1976

Acts: 1

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Acts: 1
Male Roles: 4
Female Roles: 3
Flexible Roles: 0
Has Chorus/Extras: No

Synopsis

Jonathan and Margaret have enjoyed (endured) a marriage of fifty years and a day when we join them for their rocking chair confrontation over past battles and future prospects. Bob and Doris, in their 30's, have been more or less going steady when Bob announces a job transfer that will take him -- and his mother -- to Arizona. Marshall and Carolyn are a high school senior and junior respectively, who have been formal steadies for three months.Marshall's delusions of male grandeur give rise to his humorous but unwarranted reservations about breaking poor Carolyn's heart by asking for his ring back . The Narrator blends these vignettes as he sets props and offers his wisdom on the human conditions in this wonderfully funny and believable play about the one aspect of the human folly: love