Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine
Woody Allenâs first dramatic writing published in years, âRiverside Drive,â âOld Saybrook,â and âCentral Park Westâ are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things ariseâand the reader enjoys every minute of it (though not all the characters do).
These plays (successfully produced on the New York stage and in regional theaters on the East Coast) dramatize Allenâs continuing preoccupation with people who rationalize their actions, hide what theyâre doing, and inevitably slip into sexual deceptionâall of it revealed in Allenâs quintessentially pell-mell dialogue.