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by Ernest Thompson

Forty years in the lives of Dick and Dora.

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About the author

Ernest Thompson’s work has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, Writers Guild and Broadway Drama Guild Awards and been nominated for a Tony, an Emmy and a British Academy Award. His plays have been seen in theatres around the world, his most enduring, On Golden Pond, translated into 30 languages and presented in more than 40 countries. Current projects include the film sequel to On Golden Pond, the plays Some Parts Missing and Ask/Answer and the novel Out Clause coming in 2023. With his writer wife Kerrin Thompson, he established Rescind Recidivism, a prison writing program giving inmates a chance to feel creative as well as human, capable and worthy.

For more than forty years, Ernest has been weaving stories with a unique clarity and understanding of the human condition, writing characters with a precision that makes you swear you know them or are them. His latest, The Book of Maps, will take you on a painfully beautiful cross-country journey through love and loss, laughing all the way, and, ultimately, leaving you with a greater appreciation for anyone who has gone the distance to find redemption.

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story follows the lives of Dick and Dora as they meet in a bar, go on a date, find love, get married, have kids, grow older, lose sight of love and search for something else. The play squeezes a lot of commentary about relationships into a tiny space. Dick and Dora come to find that what they were looking for was beside them the whole time. They were both too jaded to see it.

[Greg Urbaitis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simply the best One Act I've read. Beautiful!