Description

A Walk in the Park – Short play for Seniors

When Jack meets Esther in the park one day, he swears she looks familiar. Although Esther initially denies knowing him at all, she invites him to sit down and they get to talking. Jack tells her the story of the girl he knew long ago, the girl he called “Essie,” who helped him get over another girl who broke his heart a long time ago. A five minute short play for seniors – one male and one female.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

No Strings Theatre Company, NM, USA – 2021

 

Read a review of the play on Fran Lewis’ Just Reviews

“A Walk in the Park” was the first of 3 plays that Mike Cook reviewed for The Bulletin newspaper in the production known as “Connections” which had A Walk in the Park as one of the plays. Read : https://www.lascrucesbulletin.com/stories/viewers-will-connect-with-connections,5840?

Reconnect with theater online via No Strings’ ‘Connections’
 By Cheryl Thornburg
Many of us have been missing connections in this past year and No Strings Theatre Company has a solution – its February production, “Connections: For Love of Love”
 The show opens with the most contemporary, “A Walk In The Park” by Stanley Dyrector. Published in 2018, it is a described as a romantic short play for seniors. Jack is walking in a city park when he comes across a woman sitting on a park bench and he thinks he recognizes her. When he approaches her, however, she denies it and an interesting conversation ensues as she describes the hardship of living in a rent-controlled apartment where the owners want her to move out and he talks about the woman from his past. It’s an endearing piece of theater with characters that seem familiar.

Author: Stanley Dyrector

Type: Five minute plays, short plays, dramatic sketch

Genre: Romantic drama

Cast: 1M, 1F

Ages of the actors: Both over seventy. The female can be older

Length: Five minutes

Set: A Park. Daytime in the present. It is a bucolic atmosphere in the middle of a city.

Level of difficulty: 6/10 – conversational, easy lines to remember and that also flow easily

Read a Sample of the Script

Contact Off the Wall Plays with any queries about A Walk in the Park

Copyright © December 2018 Stanley Dyrector

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