John William Tuohy

Cyberdate:a Play About Romance and Comedy and Life and Lots of Other Things John William Tuohy

A romantic comedy
            
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             An award winning full length play. Cyberdate. Com is the story of six ordinary people in search of romance, friendship and love and find it in very extraordinary ways. Based on the real life experiences of the authors misadventures with on line dating, Cyber date is a bittersweet story that will make you laugh, cry and want to fall in love again.

Cyber Date Development History

2008 Winner, Theater of the First Amendment
George Mason University, Student plays
George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia

2007, Public reading, Ten Grand Productions
The Actors Chapel
239 West 49th Street
New York, New York

2007, Public reading
The New Frederick Players
Frederick Maryland

Matches made in cyberspace Originally published March 28, 2007

By Bill D'Agostino
News-Post Staff

Before John William Tuohy met the woman who'd become his second wife on Match.com, he had other, more disquieting experiences with Internet dating.
"You'd see some woman (online) and you'd think, 'Wow,'" he recalled. "But in real life, she's missing teeth and one of her eyes is closed shut and she's married to her brother, but divorced."
The Internet fosters a false intimacy that allowed some potential partners to open up to him. One younger woman, in her 30s, revealed that her husband abused her.
"It's not the sort of thing a woman would tell you in a supermarket," Tuohy said.
The 52-year-old Virginia writer used his real-life experiences to craft a fictional comedy, "CyberDate.com," which will be read on Sunday afternoon in the Community Room of the C. Burr Artz Public Library in downtown Frederick.
"The whole purpose of a reading is to improve the script," said Tuohy, a published author whose non-fiction books have told stories of organized crime.
"CyberDate.com" features eight lonely people using the Internet to reach out to potential partners.
"It's timed to have one laugh every three minutes," Tuohy said. "It comes damn close to the mark."
The play features a string of one-liners. Early in the play, one character quips that, "The only difference between a singles bar and the circus is that at a circus the clowns don't offer to buy you drinks."
The message is that there's always hope.
"It's a play about meeting over the Internet," Tuohy said, "but it's much, much more."