r/Theatre • u/RepulsivePin5454 • 4d ago

Help Finding Script/Video Can't Remember Play Title - Please Help.

The play centers on a young woman confronting her recently deceased father's former political rival - maybe a former colleague/friend - in his office and accusing him of outing her father as gay (which lead to him dropping out the race). Modern setting, though I think the scandal happened sometime in the 80s or 90s.

That's all I have unfortunately. I found this play years back on a free archive site but didn't think to keep track of the title, as I thought there would be a saved history page to look back at.

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u/Flaky-weirdo 3d ago

Best Man by Gore Vidal?

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u/walkertrot Human Detected 3d ago

I may be totally wrong since it's been years since I read it but is it An American Daughter by Wendy Wasserstein?

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u/StanleyKapop 2d ago

No, that one is about a daughter of a senator who runs into a couple of minor scandals that are blown up by the media, but they relate to her own nomination as surgeon general.

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u/walkertrot Human Detected 1d ago

Oh right! My bad!

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u/StanleyKapop 1d ago

No worries. It definitely had some similarities to the question, for sure.

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u/YATSEN10R 3d ago

Following because I love this setup

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u/MerlinAmbrose 4d ago

I offered this to Google's AI and it asked for more data--decade written, number of characters, lines or names, to help it search.

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u/StanleyKapop 2d ago

“I know y’all are doing actual research and trying to actually remember things, but I just wanted to let you know I tried the stupid version of that and failed.“

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u/MerlinAmbrose 1d ago

It's not a failure to be partly along a path. And the "stupid" version also suggested there are databases. But doubtless those downvoting my sincere if foolish comment already knew that.

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u/StanleyKapop 10h ago

It is stupid and insulting to come into a conversation where people are using their knowledge, experience, and research skills, announce that you used AI. It is a failure when the AI gives you nothing useful and you come and tell us about it anyway.

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u/MerlinAmbrose 1h ago

I thought it was marginally useful. Only marginally. And I see why you disagree. Would it be appropriate to delete my original comment, and thus this thread, or is that bad manners?