* Winner, Outstanding Playwriting of a New Script (Midtown International Theatre Festival)
* Finalist, Rover Dramaworks
* Semifinalist, Trustus Playwrights Festival
I’m in Love with your wife is a classic farce in structure, but also a dark and modern comedy.
Gary, early 30s, is a corporate middleman who just tries to make it through the day without rocking the boat. He mostly keeps to himself, interacting...
* Winner, Outstanding Playwriting of a New Script (Midtown International Theatre Festival)
* Finalist, Rover Dramaworks
* Semifinalist, Trustus Playwrights Festival
I’m in Love with your wife is a classic farce in structure, but also a dark and modern comedy.
Gary, early 30s, is a corporate middleman who just tries to make it through the day without rocking the boat. He mostly keeps to himself, interacting only with his sex-crazed and hard partying assistant Bethany who regales Gary, against his will, of tales of her evenings on the club scene.
Paul, Gary’s snarky best friend since childhood, arrives at his office unannounced. Paul drops a bombshell: he is in love with Gary’s wife. A consummate womanizer, Paul shares his story of (unfortunately) requited love, all the while flirting with Bethany. Paul keeps his cool, but demands of all things that Paul apologize for plagiarizing a dirty limerick written in elementary school.
The next day, as Gary is still digesting his friend’s news, Paul’s wife Gail visits Gary and drops a bombshell of her own: she is also in love with Gary’s wife, and has had numerous trysts with her. However, Gail emphatically denies she is a lesbian. To prove she isn’t a lesbian, she invites Bethany into Gary’s office for a lesson in temptation.
Gary discusses the chain of events with his therapist, Dr. Feldberg. The good doctor is a capable professional, although he himself is obsessed with celebrity culture; specifically, all things pertaining to Jon Voight. Not entirely convince Gary is telling the truth, the good doctor comes up with a plan to go incognito to a dinner party thrown by Gary and his wife and witness firsthand the alleged atrocities of his close friends. To aid in his disguise, the therapist brings along a ringer: another of his patients Ruth happens to be a struggling actress, and she attends the party as an impoverished Russian immigrant named Mascha.
At the party, tensions are high between the guests. Gary is angry with Paul, who obliviously flirts with Mascha while Gail stays in the kitchen with the wife, presumably cooking. Feldberg, struggling with maintaining his false identity, attempts to learn why all of Gary’s close friends are infatuated with the wife.
“I’M IN LOVE WITH YOUR WIFE,” Alex Goldberg’s new screwball comedy about marital infidelity, is very very funny. Add to that script a talented cast and great director, and you have a hit on your hands.” - Duncan Pflaster, Broadway World.com
“Thanks to tight staging, a confident and generous cast, and a democratic script full of dizzy twists, this quick-witted piece revels in its shallowness, and a good time is had by all (except Gary).” Jon Sobel, blogcritics.org
“Delicious humor, sophisticated wit, and oh so many quotes to relate to, that is, for those of us who have experienced relationship dilemmas. The urban “condition” floats freely evoking unbridled laughter and real audience engagement.” Roberta on the Arts