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The Guys - ACTING EDITION

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Anne Nelson

Published by Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

Less than two weeks after the September 11th attacks, New Yorkers are still in shock. One of them, an editor named Joan, receives an unexpected phone call on behalf of Nick, a fire captain who has lost most of his men in the attack

He's looking for a writer to help him with the eulogies he must present at their memorial services

Nick and Joan spend a long afternoon together, recalling the fallen men through recounting their virtues and their foibles, and fashioning the stories into memorials of words

In the process, Nick and Joan discover the possibilities of friendship in each other and their shared love for the unconquerable spirit of the city

As they make their way through the emotional landscape of grief, they draw on humor, tango, the appreciation of craft in all its forms - and the enduring bonds of common humanity. Based on a true story

"The kind of quiet hybrid that the situation and the times - an era of a million pithy sound bites, booming rhetoric, and the numbing repetition of the CNN loop that followed the attacks - seemed to demand ... A small jewel of a play" - Chicago Tribune

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