Mere Mortals By David Ives: Play Analysis

In Mere Mortals a play by David Ives,is made up of multiple one-act plays. Each play demonstrates its own take on life, understanding of the world and interpretations of what people go through on a daily basis. All of these plays are comedic, and they have a hidden meaning behind the humor. This allows for the writer to establish another dimension to get the meaning across.
The leading play of Mere Mortals, is “Mere Mortals.” In this play, three every day construction workers analyze and hypothesize the outrageous claims, that each of them could actually be the Lindbergh Baby. Making them the son of Czar Nicholas the second and Marie Antoinette. This play touches base on some of the ways that people jibber jabber at work. This play brings a zany view to the conversations and communications that could take place in the everyday blue-collar work places.
When they arrive at the second hole, a slightly older Chuck II appears with a different date. Nevertheless, Chuck III, now past his prime, being in his late thirties, he arrives with a young date. His latest date does not get his jokes, and worse, she is beating him at their golf game. This is a provocative play and it is a tribute to his father, which makes the reader wonder “what in the world is wrong with his father?” This makes the play stay in the mind of the reader because the way that it ends causes the reader to feel befuddled and slightly