Downhill

by Eric Coble

Drama - Comedy / How does a distant corporate executive having a bad day threaten to ruin the coloring plans of a little girl in elementary school? Downhill comedically explores the inevitable flow of fear and impatience, and what, if anything, can be done to halt it.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1966

About the author

Eric Coble was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and bred on the Navajo and Ute reservations in New Mexico and Colorado. His plays have been produced off-Broadway, throughout the United States and on several continents including productions at Manhattan Class Company, the Kennedy Center, Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, Alliance Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Laguna Playhouse, Stages Repertory, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New York Fringe Festival, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Dallas Children's Theater and the Contemporary American Theater Festival. Awards include the AT&T Onstage Award, National Theatre Conference Playwriting Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence grant, a TCG Extended Collaboration grant, the Aristophanes Award for Best New Comedy, the Cleveland Arts Prize and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence grants.

Reviews

[Tobias Tafoya · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing play, I played the part of Travis who gets bullied by Jacob, then almost bullies his little sister, but stops the chain of bullying since an office bully.