←Recommendations of For Richard, for Poorer

  • Lee R. Lawing: For Richard, for Poorer by Steven G. Martin
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    I'm a sucker for love and romance! I love this short and sweet play and I love Eddie's breathless speech at the beginning. What a character who speaks from the heart and wears his love on his sleeve. Great role for an actor, and such a charming short play for any 10 minute festival out there, gay or straight! Take that all you Aunt Bettys!

    I'm a sucker for love and romance! I love this short and sweet play and I love Eddie's breathless speech at the beginning. What a character who speaks from the heart and wears his love on his sleeve. Great role for an actor, and such a charming short play for any 10 minute festival out there, gay or straight! Take that all you Aunt Bettys!

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  • Scott Sickles: For Richard, for Poorer by Steven G. Martin
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    Warning! Whoever plays Eddie, or even just reads Eddie aloud, needs magnificent breath control! He speaks in amazing, stratospherically spiraling sentences of glorious neurosis and hairpin moods. The play itself is a spectacular man vs himself cacophony turned, to use the play’s language, affirmation. Ultimately, it is as beautiful as it is hilarious... and I had to put the damn thing down at least five times because I was laughing so hard. Wonderfully hysterical and hysterically wonderful!

    Warning! Whoever plays Eddie, or even just reads Eddie aloud, needs magnificent breath control! He speaks in amazing, stratospherically spiraling sentences of glorious neurosis and hairpin moods. The play itself is a spectacular man vs himself cacophony turned, to use the play’s language, affirmation. Ultimately, it is as beautiful as it is hilarious... and I had to put the damn thing down at least five times because I was laughing so hard. Wonderfully hysterical and hysterically wonderful!

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  • Asher Wyndham: For Richard, for Poorer by Steven G. Martin
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    Eddie's self-doubt on his wedding day becomes a stream-of-consciousness spectacle -- he immediately charms us because we see ourselves in him. This play contains one of the most effective internal monologues I've read in a long time. This would be a hit at any solo festival on the theme of love/romance and marriage, or any February showcase.

    Eddie's self-doubt on his wedding day becomes a stream-of-consciousness spectacle -- he immediately charms us because we see ourselves in him. This play contains one of the most effective internal monologues I've read in a long time. This would be a hit at any solo festival on the theme of love/romance and marriage, or any February showcase.

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  • Matthew Weaver: For Richard, for Poorer by Steven G. Martin
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    A lovely, loving, heartfelt offering. I waaaay relate to Eddie and his tendency to spiral into self-doubt and questions of self-worth, just as I think many of us in the audience will. May we all find our Richard, calm and sensible, even though his farts smell like a vegetarian's farts. These two men know each other in the most profound ways two people can know one another. Martin shows us both sides of the coupling, and shows us why they strike just the perfect balance.

    A lovely, loving, heartfelt offering. I waaaay relate to Eddie and his tendency to spiral into self-doubt and questions of self-worth, just as I think many of us in the audience will. May we all find our Richard, calm and sensible, even though his farts smell like a vegetarian's farts. These two men know each other in the most profound ways two people can know one another. Martin shows us both sides of the coupling, and shows us why they strike just the perfect balance.

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