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8221 Glades Road Suite # 10
Boca Raton, FL, 33434 
U. S. 561.483.9036

 

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
By Neil Simon 

Last of the Red Hot Lovers is one of the most amusing of Neil Simon’s comedies. It focuses on Barney Cashman, a forty-seven-year-old owner of a seafood restaurant who is afraid that the sexual revolution of the 1960’s is passing him by. Over the space of nine months, he invites three different women to his mother’s Manhattan apartment in an attempt to have an afternoon of extramarital sex. None of the affairs is consummated, however, and Barney decides after the last one that he would prefer a romantic afternoon with his wife, Thelma.

Of the three women who meet Barney, the first two are caricatures of sexually liberated women from the 1960’s. In act 1, Elaine Navazio comes to the afternoon tryst as a veteran of casual sex. In her late thirties and married, Elaine indulges frequently in extramarital affairs simply because they make her feel good. Flippant and irreverent, Elaine is openly contemptuous of Barney’s maladroit, unsophisticated style (he is nervous, wanting the affair to be “meaningful”) and bombards him with insults that hit like machine-gun fire. She is interested only in their sensual experience and is comically desperate for a cigarette throughout their meeting. When the encounter fails to produce sexual satisfaction, Elaine leaves, and Barney vows never to be tempted again. Yet eight months later, he repeats the experience with Bobbi Michele.

Bobbi is an uninhibited and adventurous twenty-seven-year-old woman who entices Barney into smoking his...

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