For Better [Paperback]

3m, 3f / Comedy In this plugged-in world of email, text-messaging and camera phones, do a bride and groom really need to be in the same country to go on a honeymoon? Karen and Max are getting married. At least, if their jobs will ever let them be in the same city at the same time. A romantic comedy for the digital age, For Better is a hilarious new farce that pokes fun at our overdependence on the gadgets in our lives. Eric Coble's hilariously funny, psychologically astute portraits hit home with rib-tickling acuity - New York Times Coble's work is a tour de force with physical and verbal comedy to spare - The New Yorker A Playwright to Watch: An unqualified original with rich and idiosyncratic works A spirit of playful invention pervades Coble s repertoire. - American Theatre Magazine Coble's comedies are, of all things, genuinely funny - Newsday