You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running

Written By Robert Anderson
Directed By Daniel Martin

March 14-30, 2019
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm
Sunday Matinee at 2pm

Performed at 5th Avenue Antiques

Four stories of love, sex, and everything in-between. Theatre Downtown brings back its annual Short Play festival (cultivating new talent for the stage) with these forgotten gems from the 1960s. If you thought sex was complicated now, wait until you see what these characters are going through! From a playwright who has the perfect role for an actor willing to bare it all, to a man tempted by infidelity while shopping for a new bed with his wife, to a couple coming to terms with their son’s new “habit,” along with lots of other changes in the world, to an elderly couple doing well just to remember each other’s name.

Featuring: Kathleen Jensen, Douglas O’Neil, Jr., Josh Roberts, Christina Guthrie, Alex Ungerman, Blake Tanner, and Matthew Whaley

Robert Anderson’s (1917-2009) most famous plays include Tea And Sympathy (1953), Silent Night, Lonely Night (1959), You Know I Can’t Hear You When The Water’s Running (1967) and I Never Sang For My Father (1968). Other plays include Come Marching Home (1945), Eden Rose (1948), Love Revisited (1950), All Summer Long (1954), Solitaire/Double Solitaire (1971), The Days Between (1975) and Free And Clear (1983). Anderson also wrote extensively for motion pictures, radio, and television. His film credits include Tea and Sympathy (1956); Until They Sail (1957), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay; Sand Pebbles (1966); The Nun's Story, which received an Academy Award nomination; and I Never Sang for My Father, which received an Academy Award nomination and was the winner of the Writers’ Guild of America Award (1970). In 1980 Anderson was nominated for the Writer’s Guild Award for his television drama The Patricia Neal Story, and was elected to The Theatre Hall of Fame. In 1985 he was awarded the William Inge Award. The Kissing Was Always The Best was one of his later plays, and I Never Sang For My Father enjoyed a successful revival in 1987 and 1988. In 1991 two of Anderson’s works were shown on television: The Last Act is a Solo, which won an Ace Award, and Absolute Strangers. Anderson served as president of the Dramatists Guild and is now on the Dramatists Guild Council.