Night Becomes Morning

by D- Davis

ONE ACT: EARLE a 30 something playwright and LOURDES, an emerging woman playwright over fifty , meet up for a night of theatre. What happened that night, changed the course of their relationship. Night Becomes Morning is a story about friendship, expectations and love.

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Night Becomes Morning

Character Information

Earle

A thirty something playwright who is confident about writing but aloof about everything else.

Character Age

30 Something

Character Race/Ethnic Identity

Any Race/Ethnicity

Character Gender Identity

Male
Can be played by:
- Actor Age
  
  30s,
  
  40s
- Actor Gender Identity
  
  Male
Lourdes

A woman writer / emerging playwright / theatre person fifteen years older than Earle.

Character Age

50s

Character Race/Ethnic Identity

Any Race or Ethnicity

Character Gender Identity

Female
Can be played by:
- Actor Age
  
  40s,
  
  50s
- Actor Gender Identity
  
  Female

Development History

Type Workshop, Organization Howl Playwrights, Year 2022
Type Reading, Organization ESPA, Year 2019

Production History

Type Professional, Organization The Chain Theater, Year 2024
Type Workshop, Organization Take Ten/Goddard College, Year 2021

Genre

comedy,

drama,

radio drama

Subject Matter Keywords

expectations,

intergenerational,

tryst

Length

10-30 minutes

Cast Size

Age of Intended Audience

ages 18 and up

Reviews

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“
Escape is at the heart of Diane Davis’s elegiac meditation on connection through art and where that might lead allows us to ruminate on all the “if onlys” and “what could have beens,” in our lives...Ms. Davis never lets us forget that sometimes, a world-wind romance only makes us dizzy.
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