Digby

Which is fine with him, as Digby believes that most modern relationships are "sex masquerading as intimacy"

But his resolve meets a severe test when he is assigned by his agency to work with the hot-blooded Faye, a super - attractive young art gallery assistant who juggles several lovers at the same time and considers sex to be one of life's more joyous prerogative

Shaken by Faye's giddy bohemianism, Digby is even more rattled when she grows increasingly attracted to him - culminating in an hilarious episode in which Faye, Digby and her three current boyfriends all get together for an unbridled country weekend

Determined not to become just another interchangeable conquest on Faye's long list, Digby's good intentions are subverted when (despite his firm resolve) he finds himself actually falling in love

With consequences which are alternately liberating for both him and Faye but which, along the way, add immeasurably to the good-natured fun and sharply pointed humor with which the play abounds

A consistently delightful, thoroughly ingratiating comedy which takes the revolutionary position that men and women can simply be friends - without the distracting factor of sex to complicate their relationship

First produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club (where it promptly sold out its limited run) the play is scheduled for open-end production Off-Broadway

"Dougherty's writing is sharp and funny, and his observation of human nature genial but acute" - NY Post

" it is nearly impossible to resist Joseph Dougherty's Digby the kind of snappy romantic comedy that writers like Jean Kerr and George Axelrod once supplied regularly to Broadway" - NY Times