Other Woman and Other Short Pieces

by David Ives

Book by David Ives

Genres: Plays

53 pages, Paperback

First published October 14, 2008

About the author

A contemporary American playwright whose plays often consist of one act and are generally comedies. They are notable for their verbal dexterity, theatrical invention, and quirky humor.

He earned his MFA in Playwriting from The Yale School of Drama. A Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting, David is probably best known for his evening of one-act comedies called "All In the Timing". The show won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season was the most-performed play in the country after Shakespeare productions.

Reviews

[shinji]

the other woman & the blizzard are my favs💅🤪

[Mackenzie Hester]

As an actor, I’m a big fan of David Ives. Interesting, unique, fast paced works of theatre!

[Kabrina]

Read The Blizzard and it was perfect. I was expecting more violence once I realized Neil and Natasha were strangers but leaving the ending open lets the imagination run wild.

Jenny's little monologue on wanting to live in a "significant world" where everything is there for a reason like in a murder mystery, reminded me of myself, however, I would hate to start a speech/rant like that and have it actually happen(unless I knew I was going to survive at least...).

I guess Jenny really did get something significant after all.

[Bernard]

I read this on a recommendation from my Playwriting teacher.

Definitely worth the read. Not sure if this is the best piece to read as an introduction to David Ives.

Out of all the plays, The Other Woman, had the most interesting structure.

The Blizzard was bizarre. Two weak characters are approached by two strongly willed characters. Does a lot in 10 pages.

I'm going to read the next David Ives book I have. I'll let ya'll know!