An excerpt from

"OPEN AND SHUT MARRIAGE"
by Bruce Kane

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"OPEN AND SHUT MARRIAGE"
by Bruce Kane

LIGHTS UP ON MARTHA STRAIGHTENING LARRY’S TIE

MARTHA: Here, let me help you with that.

LARRY: Thank you, darling.

MARTHA: Handsome as a prince. Who is it, tonight?

LARRY: Susan. A salesgirl I met while picking out your birthday present.

MARTHA: And a lovely gift it was, too.

LARRY: Susan said you'd like it. She was the one who really selected it. You know how I am with those things.

MARTHA: Thank her for me. She has excellent taste in jewelry... and men.

LARRY: I'll tell her what you said... She'll be pleased to hear it.

MARTHA: Is Susan pretty?

LARRY: Lovely... Almost as lovely as you.

MARTHA: You think Peter will like the way I look?

LARRY: He'll love you.

MARTHA: I hope so. He is such a sexy man.

LARRY: Before you go.

MARTHA: Can it wait, Larry. I am running a little late.

LARRY: This will only take a second.

MARTHA: My dearest always comes first. Besides, it's good to keep a man waiting. Gets his juices perking.

LARRY: I have a terrible confession to make, Martha.

MARTHA: What is it, dear? What's wrong?

LARRY: Remember our conversation last year?

MARTHA: Which one?

LARRY: The one we had after Tony and Judy broke up when she found out about his affair.

MARTHA: Yes... That was where we agreed that statistically, we'd be faced with the same problem, sooner or later.

LARRY: And we decided that our marriage was much too important for it to flounder on the rocks of infidelity.

MARTHA: Poetically said dear. But can you get to the point?

LARRY: It's about the agreement we reached to set aside every Tuesday night for each of us to see whoever we wanted openly and above board.

MARTHA: So long as it didn't interfere with the marriage.

LARRY: It's about those Tuesday nights.

MARTHA: They are working out wonderfully, too. Aren't they?

LARRY: Yes... Well... That's what I want to talk to you about.

MARTHA: It sounds serious.

LARRY: It is. Quite serious.

MARTHA: Oh dear.

LARRY: It's not what you're thinking.

MARTHA: Then you haven't gotten involved.

LARRY: No.

MARTHA: Good.

LARRY: It's something else.

MARTHA: Go on. Please. I want to help in any way I can.

LARRY: It's about last Tuesday night.

MARTHA: Last Tuesday... You were with someone named Joan, or Joanne, or something like that.

LARRY: That's not quite true.

MARTHA: Whatever her name. As long as you enjoyed yourself.

LARRY: I wasn't with a woman.

MARTHA: Ohmygod!!!!!

LARRY: It's not that Martha.

MARTHA: Then what the hell is it?

LARRY: I was at the movies.

MARTHA: The movies???

(The play continues)