Triple Play

Susan Patrick is a librarian at the Ryerson Poly-technical Institute.

These three short plays were written and produced on the stage in the
mid-1980s. They begin as light comedies, with smart dialogue and humor
wisecracks, but the reader is soon knocked out of complacency and
glimpses the despair cloaked by the light banter, as true personalities
and feelings are gradually revealed. The plays are funny and enjoyable
to read, yet their serious undertones invite thought about the
contemporary social and personal themes they reflect—the dissolution
of old relationships and the attempt to build new ones, love,
friendship, loneliness, and the fear of being alone.