PLAYS – comedies

THIS IS NOT WHAT I ORDERED – Published by Samuel French.
5 thematically-related plays about Modern Romance for 4 actors. 2004 Equity production, Zephyr Theatre, LA. Six performances in the 2019 Hollywood Fringe. “Overtly optimistic, classically comedic.” (Stage Raw) “Very funny. Will delight audiences. Best of Fringe!” (LA Splash)

IN THE MOOD  – 16 performances at The Ark Theatre in Noho, Oct.-Dec. 2019. 3-character, 1-set comedy. “A captivating journey through a couple’s romantic relationship in their hope of discovering love.” (Tolucan Times) “Fife writes dialogue that jumps off the page. It is blatantly funny, layered in meaning and tightly inserted into the 80-minute plot. As striking as it is entertaining.” (Stage Raw)

THE TRANSFORMATION CENTER: A Dystopian Comedy  - extensively revised since a 2001 production – about New Age Success Therapy in the future. The earlier play had an Equity Showcase at Theater for the New City; 11/8-12/22, 2001.  “A promising dystopian satire.  If the success of “Urinetown” is any indication, this one is primed for Broadway.”  (New York Magazine)  “A midnight-movie playfulness that should readily appeal to fans of “Barbarella,” “Logan’s Run,” and other sci-fi adventures.” (DigitalCity New York)

SIZZLE SIZZLE  – In this dark comedy, an aspiring novelist who works for a boutique publisher tries to prevent his company from publishing a novel that he considers “a crime against words.”

WHEN FREUD WAS JUNG: A TALE OF THE AFTERLIFE – Freud in the Afterlife, which he doesn’t believe in. He has to come to terms with how he treated his mistress (his wife’s sister) or else keep being tormented by Dr. Greif, the worst psychiatrist ever. Reading at Manhattan Theatre Club. (Filmed version directed by Yuval Shrem.)

 
THE BLESSING  – An executive at a huge conglomerate seeks the blessing on his marriage from his dead uncle, who is also the founder of the corporation he works for.  A paranormal corporate rom-com.

THE KITCHEN GIRL – A suspenseful dark comedy about an older Jewish couple who may have had a son, and the man who comes to interview them about their neighborhood. Equity Showcase at Theater for the New City, NYC. “An enigmatic little play of secrets, guilt and roiled psyches…[it] raises the ghosts buried in horrible memories of the Holocaust, murder, and abandonment, and makes of its characters both haunts and the haunted.” (New York Times)“Fascinating and disturbing…If you’re looking for theater that will leave you thinking about the complexities seeded by the experiences of Jews in the 20th century, make sure to catch this.”(Curtain Up Reviews)