AN EVENING WITH MY FRIENDS
If you set out to write the worst play in the world, you would certainly strive to make the script trite, pretentious, and hopelessly implausible. The dialogue, of course, would be inane, and the “profound” passages would be written in rhyming verse. At least some of the characters would be insulting stereotypes, and any treatment of sex would be smarmy. You’d also want to include a couple of ghastly musical numbers, and you’d want them performed by actors who can’t sing or play their instruments.
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Then, out of nowhere, comes a dramatic scene in which the bus driver (Chris Kulovitz) is confronted by his pregnant wife (Peggy Queener), who believes he is having an affair with a waitress. This scene has no connection, in tone or content, with anything else in the play.
