More Fun than Bowling

by Steven Dietz

Genres: Plays

Paperback

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

Steven Dietz is an American playwright whose work is largely performed regionally, i.e. outside of New York City. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Dietz graduated in 1980 with a Theater degree from the University of Northern Colorado. He is the recipient of the PEN U.S.A. Award in Drama (for Lonely Planet); the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award (Fiction and Still Life With Iris); and the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Award (The Rememberer). Halcyon Days is one of his other successful plays. Many of his plays are very political. He lives in Seattle.

Reviews

[Jessica López-Barkl · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this early Steven Dietz play. The Little Theatre of Walla Walla will be producing it as their second installment in their season this year. It starts with a man who digs himself out of a grave that he has plotted for himself between the two women he has married. He's convinced that Death is after him, and, in fact there is a shadowy character hiding behind a tree throughout the play. During the play he talks with his 13 year old daughter from his first marriage and to his 2nd and 3rd wives who are both dead and climb out of their graves...it's a really fun play with a wild structure. There is also a lot to be learned about love and family and fate...Awww...the good things of life...oh, yeah, and bowling...

[Wayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I still have little desire to slip on a pair of bowling shoes and make for an alley...