THE STORY: KEEPIN’ AN EYE ON LOUIE, again focuses on male violence, but this time the action involves a “stakeout” where two policemen and a policewoman are holed up with a Mafia informer (dressed as a woman) monitoring the comings and goings in an Italian restaurant frequented by the mob. Both policemen are having trouble with their wives—one is impotent, the other suspects his wife of infidelity—and, again, their simmering unease leads both to sexual confusion and destructive, fatal violence, albeit laced with moments of antic humor and wildly funny dialogue.
“John Bishop…keeps extending his range and getting better and better from play to play.” —New York Magazine.
“There is white-hot excitement here, and, speaking for myself, I hung on every word Bishop’s people spoke.” —New York Post.
“Bishop’s crisp dialogue, believable characters, succinct structuring, and worthwhile thematic underpinnings make for absorbing theatregoing.” —Backstage.
Included in the collection
Borderlines.
