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Love, Lies & The Doctor's Dilemma

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 3m

Little white lies create mistaken identities and chaos in this enchanting love story. A new farce by the authors of Sex Please, We're Sixty!

Love, Lies & The Doctor's Dilemma

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    105 Minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Farce, Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14-18)

Details

Summary
Joan Scheller lives with the great love of her life, Sandy. In an effort to hide their relationship from her overbearing sister-in-law, the former movie star Olivia St. Claire, she introduces him as her psychiatrist. One little white lie leads to another. Before long, Vinny the Enforcer, a quintessential Italian mobster, masquerades as her security guard, while her son, Chris, is forced to wear a dress and become her daughter Christina. Further complications occur when her new neighbor, Rachael, whose life appears to be a series of catastrophes, creates chaos and confusion wherever she goes. “The Doctor” is in. Has Joan created a monster? Everyone wants a session. Olivia wants to discuss her love life, Rachael wants to know why she’s such a disaster, and Vinny wants to discuss his work as an “Enforcer.” Sandy is forced to listen and give misguided advice, which, to everyone’s surprise, seems to work. But what about love? Of course there’s Joan and Sandy, if they can survive Joan’s white lies; then there’s Rachael, who is strongly attracted to Chris, if he can survive her mayhem. Finally, there’s Olivia, who hires Vinny away from the mob to be her personal security guard (with benefits?).
History
Love, Lies, and the Doctor’s Dilemma premiered at Ed Fletcher’s Early Bird Dinner Theatre in Clearwater, FL in May 2016 under the direction of Toby Manion.
  • Time Period Present Day
  • Setting

    Joan’s suburban home… anywhere in the world.

  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Physical Comedy
  • Duration 105 Minutes

Media

“Solid, lighthearted fun, and often that’s just what the doctor ordered.” – The Column Reviews
“Comical twists and turns.” – Vanguard Newspaper

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Authors

Michael Parker

Michael Parker

Michael Parker (1935-2019) was active in the theatre almost all his life. At age 14, in England, where he was born and raised, he won the title role in a regional production of Terence Rattigan’s play The Winslow Boy, for which he received a Best Actor of the Year award. By a ...

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Susan Parker

Susan Parker

Susan Parker, a prolific Concord Theatricals/Samuel French-published playwright, forged a remarkable theatrical legacy collaborating alongside her late husband with a portfolio of seven acclaimed plays that have graced stages both in the United States and across the globe sin ...
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