The Long Weekend is about love and fear - a story that starts off with a harmless dream of an affair and ends with two people running for their lives. Read the full description.
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The Long Weekend is a story of love and fear - a story that starts off with a harmless dream of an affair and ends with two people running for their lives. A young married couple from the city, in the midst of relationship troubles, decides to spend a long weekend out in the country. They are city dwellers and are not at all used to the strangeness of the deep woods. Sleepless from the heat and mosquitoes, recent unspoken and delicate issues begin to surface. As their playful dialogue gradually deteriorates into resentment and anger, something out in the woods creeps closer to their cabin. Something unforeseen. Something terrifying.
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Joseph Dougherty
Posted on December 02, 2006 at 06:24 PM | Permalink
Review of The Long Weekend
Well acted and carefully produced to create a sense of aural-cinema, ?The Long Weekend? is a subtle, cumulatively discomforting tale of a couple alone in a country house, plagued by mosquitoes, their own carefully carved secrets, and noises approaching from the dark woods that might turn out to be something much more lethal than simply a metaphor for a shaky marriage.
Creator Billy Senese requests that his plays be listened to ?late at night, with the lights off and the imagination free to roam.? He knows that the best theater resides in the space behind our eyes and I?d suggest honoring his request.