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How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 4m
Image: 2017 Lincoln Center Theater Production (Kyle Froman)
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Cast Size
4w, 4m -
Duration
120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Not Applicable -
Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
History
Cast Attributes
Performing Groups
- Time Period Contemporary, Present Day
- Setting A forest.
A living/dining room.
A jail-- empty space with a few bars. - Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
- Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
- Cautions
- Alcohol
- Drugs
- Strong Language
- Mild Adult Themes
Media
“A subversive enchantment... part absurd domestic serio-comedy, part erotic magic realism.” – Newsday
“How to Transcend a Happy Marriage has a charming phantasmagorical finish that points out the conflict between our animal nature and the societal norms we create to control it.” – BroadwayWorld, Read More
“Audiences are receiving a comprehensive education in the polyamorous lifestyle in Sarah Ruhl’s whimsical and spiritual domestic drama, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage... for those willing to take the ride, the play is a provocative and poetic meditation on being caught between reasonably happy domesticity and untapped, unacknowledged desires.” – AM New York, Read More
“This new play is a subversive enchantment. It is part absurd domestic serio-comedy, part erotic magic realism, unflinching about taboos and about questioning that, just maybe, monogamy isn’t enough.” – Newsday, Read More
“Provocative and enlightening... How to Transcend a Happy Marriage abounds with situations that lead its characters to say the most quotable things, all of which should be experienced live in the theater and not in any critic’s review. They’re that memorable.” – The Wrap, Read More
Videos
Lincoln Center Theater montage of How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
Photos
Image: 2017 Lincoln Center Theater Production (Kyle Froman)
Image: 2017 Lincoln Center Theater Production (Kyle Froman)
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
- Mandatory Music/Media Fee: £18 per performance
Authors
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Clean House, Passion Play, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Melancholy Play, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, The Oldest Boy, Stage Kiss, Dear Elizabeth, Eurydice, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Orlando, Late ...