Diane Quadling & Jez Watt
Based on part of Neil Simon's own life, Chapter Two mixes laughter with heartache. George Schneider, a writer whose wife has recently died, returns to a lonely apartment. His brother Leo, a theatrical press agent and born matchmaker, tries to snap George out of his emotional tailspin by supplying him with unwanted and unsuccessful dates. Then Leo comes up with Jennie Malone and she's a winner; still it's a rocky road ahead for the not so young lovers. George struggles with contradictory impulses to embrace a new life but remain faithful to the old. Meanwhile Leo has a fling with Faye, Jennie's dizzy and neurotic married friend. George and Jennie stumble on, tripping over his pent up emotions and her wariness born of her recent marital fiasco. |
Jacqui Lodge & Peter Beadle