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Later Life - Acting Edition

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I performed a scene from this play in my beginning acting class and reading the play helped to put my character into perspective. It was an interesting story line, comical with some mature content. It did not end the way I wanted it to or it ended in a way that suggests there is more to the story. Reading plays in general are a fast way to read a story because it almost all dialog but the reader must rely on their own imagination for what most of the setting looks like. That is a director's job to do, anyhow.

A play for two men and two women. From book's back cover:

Austin has spent his entire life convinced that something terrible is bound to happen to him. One night, at a party overlooking Boston Harbor, he has the pleasure of rekindling a romance begun almost 30 years ago with Ruth, now a multiple divorcee, whose personal life is in such turmoil that their mutual friends look to Austin as Ruth's last shot at normalcy. At the same time, these friends are hoping the wildly unpredictable Ruth will help loosen Austin from the grip of years of depression and lifelessness. Comically and sometimes painfully, these two people will rediscover each other and themselves while a bevy of free-spirited other guests rally behind them and remind them of the infinite possibilities that life holds, should one only chose to pursue them.