This Is Not the Cotswolds and You’re Not Cameron Diaz

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Ten-Minute: (2025) Tom and Jerry are enjoying a day at the beach. Do you hear what I hear?

Written for the 2025 Playwrights Thriving Secret Santa Title Exchange.

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Ten-Minute: (2025) Tom and Jerry are enjoying a day at the beach. Do you hear what I hear?

Written for the 2025 Playwrights Thriving Secret Santa Title Exchange.

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This Is Not the Cotswolds and You’re Not Cameron Diaz

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  • Paul Donnelly: This Is Not the Cotswolds and You’re Not Cameron Diaz

    This comedy of delirious miscommunication is great fun. Tom and Jerry blithely sail along, each certain that they are having the same conversation when that could not be further from the truth. I have to wonder what their conversation will be like once their new hearing aids are in.

    This comedy of delirious miscommunication is great fun. Tom and Jerry blithely sail along, each certain that they are having the same conversation when that could not be further from the truth. I have to wonder what their conversation will be like once their new hearing aids are in.

  • Aly Kantor: This Is Not the Cotswolds and You’re Not Cameron Diaz

    It takes a relentlessly smary playwright to write something this relentlessly silly! It might take audiences a minute to pick up on what's going on, but once they do, it's an engaging tennis match as they translate both sides of the conversation. You'd expect this little scene to end in a flaming car wreck, but no - there is so much unspoken love and trust in this relationship that it works itself out, leaving the audience with faith that future conversations will go much better! What a hoot!

    It takes a relentlessly smary playwright to write something this relentlessly silly! It might take audiences a minute to pick up on what's going on, but once they do, it's an engaging tennis match as they translate both sides of the conversation. You'd expect this little scene to end in a flaming car wreck, but no - there is so much unspoken love and trust in this relationship that it works itself out, leaving the audience with faith that future conversations will go much better! What a hoot!

  • Scott Sickles: This Is Not the Cotswolds and You’re Not Cameron Diaz

    Add a hearing deficit to the distractions of a crossword puzzle and a beached whale and... well, this happens. The rehearsal process for this piece will be a blast as everyone figures out what Tom and Jerry each thought they heard. The couple has a wonderful lived-in feel – we know them for three pages but they've known each other forever. Through fragments of misunderstood dialogue, Williams provides pointillism of a life well-loved. And some of the misshearings are truly wince-worthy. A joy!

    Add a hearing deficit to the distractions of a crossword puzzle and a beached whale and... well, this happens. The rehearsal process for this piece will be a blast as everyone figures out what Tom and Jerry each thought they heard. The couple has a wonderful lived-in feel – we know them for three pages but they've known each other forever. Through fragments of misunderstood dialogue, Williams provides pointillism of a life well-loved. And some of the misshearings are truly wince-worthy. A joy!

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Character Information

  • TOM
    Character Age
    Middle-aged
  • JERRY
    Character Age
    Middle-aged