Sweet Sue (play)

Sweet Sue is a play by

Broadway production at the Music Box Theatre

during the 1986-87 season.

Characters

The play requires four actors for its two characters, Susan Weatherhill, a repressed and uncertain woman in her late forties, and Jake, a young man who is the

Passion (1981) by Peter Nichols^{[citation needed]}. Here, Gurney uses it to create an atmosphere of light romantic comedy, punctuated by moments of unease.^{[citation needed}

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Gurney has explained that the play was initially meant to be a modern treatment of the classical tale of Phaedra and her desire for a younger man, but turned into a summer romance, with Susan's struggling with problems of self-esteem, artistic integrity, and sexual attraction to a man young enough to be her son.^[1] Reviewers tended to dismiss the play as superficial and far from Gurney's best^{[citation needed]}, but it ran for six months on Broadway, due in part to the casting of the two Sues with the popular actors Mary Tyler Moore and Lynn Redgrave.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ A. R. Gurney (27 July 1986). "Pushing the Walls of Dramatic Form". The New York Times.

External links

Sweet Sue at the Internet Broadway Database

[1] A. R. Gurney (27 July 1986). "Pushing the Walls of Dramatic Form". The New York Times.

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Characters

Analysis

References

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