The Time of the Cuckoo
by Arthur Laurents
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Leona Samish a single American woman of a "certain age" takes a long-planned European vacation from her job as a secretary and finds herself in a pensione in Venice Italy. At a street market she meets the handsome proprietor Renato DiRossi entering into a casual flirtation which turns into an affair. Her complacency is jolted when she discovers he is married has several children and is quite happy with the arrangement as is. Long-dormant frustrations and anger come to the surface as Leona show more faces the harsh reality of this new found infatuation and her own romantic notions of love. Shirley Booth and later Katharine Hepburn ("Summertime") played the leading role. show lessTags
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Arthur Laurents (1917-2011), a playwright, screenwriter, and director, wrote two of Broadway's landmark shows, Gypsy and West Side Story, and created one of Hollywood's most well-known romances, The Way We Were. He is the author of Original Story By, his first autobiography. David Saint (New Brunswick, NJ) and Laurents worked together on eleven show more plays and musicals, including the hit Broadway revival and national tour of West Side Story and seven world premieres by Laurents at George Street Playhouse. Now in his fifteenth season as the artistic director of the George Street Playhouse, Saint has directed thirty-nine mainstage productions and is the recipient of the Alan Schneider Award, Helen Hayes Award, Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, and several Drama-Logue Awards. show less
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- Canonical title
- The Time of the Cuckoo
- Original publication date
- 1952
- Related movies
- Summertime (1955 | IMDb)
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