A Foreign Country (excerpt)

Synopsis:

Frank Wilberforce is 68.

At 26 – as an up-and-coming playwright – the world was his oyster.

Then he upped, and came and, in due course, went again.

Now he hasn’t had a play produced in 27 years.

His long-suffering wife, June, has had to support him through the years of frustration and bitterness.

Not that he ever stopped writing.  The study floor is piled high with boxes of his works – works that no-one will ever read.

Until Amy comes on the scene.

Amy, 23, is doing her masters in drama studies, and wants Frank to become her mentor.

Frank, of course, is not in the least bit interested.

June is.

But nothing is quite as it seems, and what starts out as a subtle and engaging 21^st century take on the Pygmalion genre soon swerves into the uncharted waters of post-modern deconstructionism.

The result is a complex, blackly comic and somewhat unsettling parable on the demise of human feeling in art and, on a deeper level, on the nature of loss itself.

Character Breakdown:

Cast of three – two females, one male.
FRANK Wilberforce  68
JUNE  His wife, 65
AMY Jevic  23

Running-time: 105 minutes.

Production History: Not yet produced.

Excerpt available for download for free.