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Synopsis:
We spend a large proportion of our formative years learning life’s scripts.
These consist of programmed responses to the kinds of situations commonly encountered in day-to-day life.
The repertoire is large though limited, the response more or less on automatic pilot.
From time to time, however, awkward moments intrude themselves into our ordered existences.
More often than not, such moments owe their awkwardness to some kind of conflict of interests. The latter range from trifles – two people arriving at an elevator simultaneously – right through to issues of life and death.
Eunice and Myra are old friends.
They meet regularly for coffee at a local, roadside café, where they habitually select from a fairly narrow range of life’s scripts. That is until, one day, a man collapses in the gutter across the road from the café.
The collapse of a stranger in a gutter within range of one’s conscience does not fall within the bounds of either Myra’s or Eunice’s life scripts, thereby creating a distinctly awkward moment.
What ensues is a subtle, sometimes hilarious, often unsettling, occasionally excruciating journey that takes the two old friends from the centres of their respective comfort zones right out to the point where life meets death.
The result is an extraordinary piece of deeply provocative theatre.
Character Breakdown:
Four-hander: 2 males, 2 females:
MYRA
ISHMAEL / QUENTIN – one actor.
EUNICE
RAYMOND / WAITER – one actor.
Production History: Not yet produced.
Running-time: 125 minutes.
Excerpt available for download for free.
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