Pain Management

Without dialogue, this comedy is ideal for an international audience.

This absurd completely physical play dramatizes how desperate -- and creative -- someone with chronic pain can be in getting help from day to day.

Synopsis: A woman with chronic back pain tries to get help to retrieve a computer mouse she has dropped into a gaping void. She orders a grabber from Amazon, and then drops that grabber in the...

Without dialogue, this comedy is ideal for an international audience.

This absurd completely physical play dramatizes how desperate -- and creative -- someone with chronic pain can be in getting help from day to day.

Synopsis: A woman with chronic back pain tries to get help to retrieve a computer mouse she has dropped into a gaping void. She orders a grabber from Amazon, and then drops that grabber in the void and orders another grabber to pick up that lost grabber. Another tactic is to book a Tinder date to get help. When he hurts his back, she enlists the responding paramedic. At the end, she starts all over again when she drops the cell phone into the same void.
Trust me, it works well on Zoom with two actors alternating reading stage directions.

PRODUCTION NOTE:
The play has no dialogue, only stage directions and sound effects.
In a Zoom reading or even a live one, one actor can read the stage directions. Or two people can read them, alternating paragraphs. Trust me, that works better than you think.

Inspired by the format and form of Krapp's Last Tape by Beckett.

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Pain Management

CAST: 2-4, considering doubling
Can be any gender, really.

Carla
Tinder Date
Paramedic
Pizza Delivery person