Second Chance, First Love

Premise

Decades later Zelda meet up with her first love, Stanley a washed up sit com star in the hotel room.

Of Note: Finalist – Calgary Theatre Critics Award, Outstanding New Play

Theme

Sometimes you have to be striped bare to realize what is really important.

Hook

Does Zelda want to re-kindle her romance with Stanly or is something else her first love?

Media

“I laughed. I sniffed. I cheered. I gasped in wondrous disbelief and I lost my glasses when I took them off to wipe the tears of joy from my eyes watching Caroline Russell-King’s new comedy Second Chance, First Love…. And like Neil Simon America‘s master of deeply human comedies, Russell-King knows how to set up a joke but she also knows there is laughter in pain and merriment… Do yourself a favor check into Lunchbox Theatre’s Palliser Suite where you’ll have a second chance to relish houmour and heartache Russell-King style” – five stars.”

"Caroline Russell-Kings pitch perfect rom-com… Russell-King’s latest hotel comedy, the second in the trilogy that are an homage to Neil Simon’s suite plays- beautifully hits the comedy suite spot. Second Chance, First Love is the perfect romantic comedy. – 4 stars"

“I am by no means immune to the charms of a cute but smart comedy. After all, you’ve gotta lean into the light and laugh once in a while! Happily, Caroline Russell-King’s world premiere of Second Chance, First Love affords this pleasure quite heartily through a sweet but intelligent story of former lovers reuniting for a possible return to romance. Like Simon, Russell-King’s script tackles the issues and concerns of regular people through a dialogue-rich mix of humour and bittersweet seriousness… You will laugh all the way through and never be uncomfortable with the language or sexual situation. SEE IT… you will enjoy a fabulously fun, not overly formulaic hour in the theatre.“

How To Get a Copy

Second Chance, First Love is one of three plays published in a trilogy called Palliser Suite.

To purchase this published play please contact Frontenac House.

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Past Productions

Development History

Second Chance, First Love was developed through Stage One Petro Canada Plays at Lunchbox Theatre with director Kevin McKendrick under the Artistic Directorship of Pamela Halstead.

• Gail Hanrahan
  Lunchbox Theatre (Calgary, AB)