Sherry Alpert
Canton, MA
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Biography

Single Again is Sherry Alpert's first full-length playm a comedy with tears.

One scene, entitled “Have a Nice Evening,” won the Audience Choice Award for Comedy at the 39th Annual Playwrights Platform New Play Festival at the Boston Playwrights Theatre in 2011. Another scene “Food for Thought” was part of the F.U.D.G.E. Theatre’s “Short Play Festival” at the New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, MA in 2010.

Sherry took a playwriting course with nationally acclaimed playwright Kirsten Greenidge at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education in Cambridge, MA and worked with Greenidge on subsequent revisions.

Alpert has been involved with the Playwrights Platform, Boston, for many years, during which time Single Again benefited from three staged readings with the organization. In addition, Stacey Stephens, Artistic Director of the former Fiddlehead Theatre, an Equity theatre in Norwood, MA, helped her develop the play to its present form.

Alpert has taken several fiction writing course

Plays

Single Again
by Sherry Alpert

“Single Again” is a laughter-and-tears play about middle-aged (ages 40-60), post-divorce dating with six actors:  two women and four men, all playing multiple roles except for the lead character, Robin.  “Single Again” has one set, which serves as both Robin’s and the men’s living quarters, distinguished by telltale props.  It is set in the present in the Boston area.  Running time is two hours, plus intermission.

Cast:
Six Actors: two actresses and four actors play all parts One actress plays only Robin; all are 40ish to 50ish; men can be up to 60ish Actor 1: ROBIN, main character, slim, attractive Actor 2: KATHY, ROBIN’s friend and confidante, slightly overweight ROBIN’s MOTHER’s offstage voice CLAIRE, woman milling around at singles reception BETTY, Barry’s ex-wife, a henpecker, heard offstage ROBIN’s THERAPIST ANNE, CHARLIE’s sixteen-year-old daughter Actor 3: BARRY, Robin’s first relationship, slim GUY 1 and GUY 6 at singles reception Waiter Actor 4: BRUCE JEFF, slim GUY 2 and GUY 7 at singles reception ROBIN’s FATHER’s offstage voice MAN seen in silhouette in last scene Actor 5: CHARLIE, Robin’s second relationship, overweight GUY 4 and GUY 8 at single’s reception Actor 6: NEAL, ROBIN’s third relationship, short and slim GUY3 and GUY5 at single’s reception Bagel café clerk ASTA, poodle owned by BRUCE