Short Play
Coffee House, Greenwich Village
CAST: 2M, 1W
About the Play
On a blind date in a coffee house, an ordinary man meets a beautiful femme fatale. A rude waiter appears and the woman gradually prods the man to confront his dark side.
The St. Louis Actors’ Studio brought the best plays from the annual LaBute New Theater Festival to 59E59 Theatre in NYC, January 13 to February 7. John Doble’s one-act play, Coffee House, Greenwich Village was included in an evening of 6 one-act plays that included a new play by Neil LaBute.
Production History:
Off Broadway LaBute New Theater Festival, 59E59 Theater, NYC, 2016
Neil LaBute New Theater Festival, St. Louis Actors’ Studio, St. Louis, MO, 2014
Drip Action Theatre Arundel Trail Festival, Arundel, UK, 2014
Nantucket Short Play Festival, Nantucket, MA, 2013
Midwinter Madness Theatre Festival, NYC, 2012
Manhattan Rep Winter One-Act Festival, NYC, 2012
Samuel French Off Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival, NYC, 2004
Selected for The Last Frontier Theater Conference, Valdez, AK, 2005
Recognition
Awards
Finalist, Best Play, Nantucket Short Play Festival, Nantucket, MA, 2013
Finalist, Best Play, Midtown International Theatre Festival, NYC, 2013
Finalist, Best Play, Midwinter Madness Theatre Festival, NYC 2012
Finalist, Best Play, Manhattan Rep, NYC, 2012
Press & Reviews
The playwright has woven a web of dialogue in which the characters appear by turns to fiercely dominate and then submit to one another through light, impersonal small-talk…a story of Hitchcockian scope.
Coffee House, Greenwich Village with that as its setting is John Doble’s uproarious black comedy reminiscent of the sensibilities of Elaine May, Jules Feiffer and Christopher Durang.
“Coffee House, Greenwich Village,” by John Doble, opens the second part of the festival. It is an engaging, jarring play with a quite unexpected ending.