Description
Marcia Savin
25 minute romantic comedy
1 man, 1 woman
What actors are saying…
“Thank you for writing such a beautiful script. It was a pleasure being in the show.” — Bob B
“Thank you for writing such a beautiful story creating such wonderful, complex and human characters.”— Cheryl F
and directors are saying…
“I was most impressed with the depth and sensitivity of this delightful play about the live and loves of two senior citizens.”— Tavis R
The production so impressed a patron that she presented the company with a $4,000 grant to continue the work with senior actors and audiences! — George C
Playwright, Marcia Savin, writes:
When I wrote Just a Song at Twilight when I was in my thirties. After a hectic day of teaching, I would unwind at a Dairy Queen where seniors hung out. I’d listen to them flirt and banter. What struck me was how people’s feelings never change. No matter how old we are, we still want friendship, admiration, love, satisfaction. A that time, the last thing I imagined was that someday I’d reconnect with someone special I knew 40 years ago — just like my characters. Their scenario, of course, was very different.
I moved to New York from California for my husband’s job. I didn’t know a soul. But I remembered Michael, a warm funny guy I’d gone to college with in Berkeley 10 years prior. I knew that he’d moved to New York with his young family to teach. Now, both married, once again on the same coast, I thought it would be nice to reconnect. But when I called the school he was no longer there. Off and on, over the years, I thought of him, but had no idea where he was. On top of that, I’d forgotten his last name. That seemed to be that. Decades later, after my marriage ended, I was going through old journals, tearing out anything I’d written in anger about my children — in case I died suddenly — when I came across Michael’s name — first and last. I went to the Web and there he was, in Jersey! Just across the river. I wrote. He called two days later. We talked for an hour. He said his wife had died years earlier. He suggested dinner. And … we’ve been together ever since. While it’s not the same as this play, the parallel does feel eerie.
See other plays by Marcia Savin:
This play is found in the collection, New Plays for Mature Actors.
