Featuring stars of television and film, Linda Purl and Patrick Duffy.
“Love Quest” is a contemporary, original play that is deliberately cheeky and wonderfully detailed. It cajoles. It sparkles. It delights.” Jim Ruocco
Storyline: Surviving The Perilous World Of Online Dating
Kate Crawford, 60, is recently divorced after a 30-year marriage. Her husband left her for a younger woman and she is dealing with issues of abandonment, ageing and the new world order of internet dating. It is a position in which she never thought she would find herself. Her concerned daughter, Megan, posts Kate’s profile on the Love Quest dating site and Kate is thrust into unknown territory. The “gentleman caller” is a thing of the past. Now a relationship is decided in a millisecond with the “swipe” of a finger across your smartphone. And speed dating gives Kate sixty seconds to present herself, thirty seconds too long for many of the younger men who sit across from here.
Brook Davis, 32, single, is climbing the corporate ladder in the fashion industry with a driven, single-minded focus. She has just won “The Emerging Designer of the Year”. Her ambition left her little time for socializing which is just fine with her. Raised in foster homes she has learned to only trust herself. A relationship would only get in her way. However, executives in her firm want her to raise her celebrity profile by being seen and photographed at the right places with eye candy dates. Her assistant, Bové, reluctantly signs her up on Love Quest. Brook is far more cynical than Kate and is more amused than shocked by what she encounters in the world of high-speed dating.
Kate and Brook meet after a date goes awry and become friends and allies in this strange new dating world. Each has started with different goals and they both find something they didn’t expect. Kate finds an inner strength and realizes what is truly important in life. Brook learns to trust again. Neither outcome is the result of an online search.
Love Quest is a 90-minute romantic comedy with a cast of six.
“Linda Purl plays an often-exasperated Kate with body language that’s spot on. Her reactions to uncomfortable situations that are shocking or frustrating to Kate, are priceless!” – Don Church and Tony Schillaci, Critics On The Aisle
“There are some really engaging scenes that highlight the show. One scene is Kate imagining she is in a boxing ring, fighting against all of the losers she has met on her dates. She delivers recaps of their inept one-liners and come-ons and then knocks them out. It’s an especially pleasing moment, and one extremely well-acted by Purl.”
“There’s a line… that is sheer poetry. I can’t imagine a woman’s heart not melting a bit at hearing this.” – Geary Danihy
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