By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea

by  McNally, Terrence | Wilson, Lanford | Pintauro, Joe

Published: 1997

Acts: 3

Language:

Category: Drama

Acts: 3
Male Roles: 1
Female Roles: 2
Flexible Roles: 0
Has Chorus/Extras: No

Synopsis

Three one-act plays melded into one beautiful dramatic piece. The opening play DAWN: Quentin and his sister Veronica, together with his wife Pat, gather at the beach to scatter their mother's ashes. The act itself is a closure of sorts, but it stirs up conflicts between the three as marital wounds and sibling rivalries never dealt with are finally confronted. The second play DAY: Takes a look at Ace, a local gardener who goes to the beach on his lunch hour and runs into Macy, a sexpot huppie. Macy seduces Ace into applying her tanning lotion, but then the gardener's nutty girlfriend arrives to give them all a run for their money. The last play Dusk: focuses on Willy, a hunk at the beach, and the two women, Dana and Marsha, who would do anything to have him. We discover that all three suffer from their own personal prisons from which they need to escape, and luckily they seem to have found the right place and time to do so.