MATTHEW BARBER (1962 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Matthew Barber
Enchanted April |
| 1st Produced: | Hartford Stage - Hartford, Connecticut | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Romantic Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim | |||||
| Synopsis: | When two proper London housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak marriages, they recruit two other, very different English women to share the cost and the experience. During their enchanted month in the Ligurian villa, the ladies fall under the spell of their idyllic, sun-drenched surroundings. There, amid the wisteria blossoms, they rediscover laughter, learn new truths about themselves and find just the romance they need, though perhaps not the romance we-or they-expect to find | |||||