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(More customer reviews)Robert Anderson 1917-2009, playwright, was 91 years old and died as a result of Alzheimer's disease. He was a brilliant writer, a master of social relationship dialogue. His most famous plays, Tea and Sympathy starred Deborah Kerr, I Never Sang For My Father, Silent Night, Lonely Night, where an adulterous lonely night takes place, and a favorite.... You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running. - four different one act comedies.
Double Solitaire (1974) is a play that has a couple, Charlie and Barbara, married 25 years who are faced with the reality of a disintegrating marriage, complete with an adulterous past, and decision to renew their vows. Charlie, played wonderfully by Richard Crenna who was 76 when he died of pancreatic cancer in 2003. Also starring as a friend, is veteran actor Harold Gould, who passed in Sept/2010 at 86.
Charlie's parents are celebrating their 50th anniversary, while they urge Charlie and Barbara to renew their vows simulataneously. Charlie, on the other hand has lost the "intensity" in his marriage; had an affair, while Barbara feels the same... what used to be, is not anymore. They both recognize a renewal of vows is not in the picture, and cannot be.
Charlie's parents have kept their marriage intact by doing what they believe they are supposed to do to keep a marriage going, the superficial things. Charlie's son, young, in love, and not married, is an illusionist to reality; he does not want to be where his parents are. The son believes "that isn't going to happen to us", so, he remains unmarried to make sure not to experience a loveless relationship.
You will learn the many stages and variations that love and marriage reveal through various voices. The writing is brilliant. And, interestingly, the story remains the same, different time, same problems......Rizzo
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