Mere Mortals: Six One-Act Comedies

by David Ives

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Genres: Plays

110 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

A contemporary American playwright whose plays often consist of one act and are generally comedies. They are notable for their verbal dexterity, theatrical invention, and quirky humor.

He earned his MFA in Playwriting from The Yale School of Drama. A Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting, David is probably best known for his evening of one-act comedies called "All In the Timing". The show won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season was the most-performed play in the country after Shakespeare productions.

Reviews

[Rebecca Cairo · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun little sampling of little plays— the first half (the “act 1” section) was much more funny to me but they all had their comical moments.

[behsforensics]

Cutting is for Dr. Fritz
By David Ives

[Rachel Trimble · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is 6 short plays in one, and some of them were really good, some of them were meh, and some of them were not good.
Overall kinda in the middle about it.

Would recommend?
Maybe