Pizzazz (triple bill) [View From The Obelisk + Roman Fever + Pizzazz]

Title: Pizzazz (triple bill) [View From The Obelisk + Roman Fever + Pizzazz]
Author: Leonard, Hugh
Price: $24.95

These three plays, intended solely as entertainment, share the common theme of travelling - near Dublin, in Rome and on the Shannon river.

A View From The Obelisk: M2 F1. A hilltop.
Convalescing fom heart surgery, Owen returns to his native Ireland with Rosemary and insists on showing her the view from a hilltop near Dublin. But the climb takes rather a lot out of him and Rosemary goes off to summon a car. While she is gone, a young man appears, sketching the view. Owen strikes up a conversation with him, talking as though he'd known him for years. The boy goes, and it is only when Rosemary returns that Owen realizes why the boy seemed so familiar to him ...

Roman Fever (From the story by Edith Wharton): M1 F2. A terrace. Period 1930.
On a restaurant terrace in Rome, Mrs Slade and Mrs Ansley are reminiscing about a Roman holiday they had together many years before. Mrs Slade, envious of the other's daughter's engagement to a rich marchese cannot resist a spiteful jibe which demolishes a cherished memory. But in the end it is Mrs Slade's illusions that are shattered.

Pizzazz: M2 F3. A reception area.
Whilst waiting to hire out cabin cruisers on the River Shannon, two apparent strangers play an elaborate game, which involves re-enacting a marriage on the rocks, with the other people in the reception area as a supporting cast. But this is a Chinese box of a play and all is not what it seems..

Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780573016417
Publishing status: OS Archived