7 Minutes to Live by
[FULL-LENGTH TWISTED COMEDY-DRAMA]
No metaphor. No joke. Henry Crawford has exactly seven minutes to live and he's dying to tell you all about it.
The play opens with Henry's voice ringing out of the darkness, asking, "You want to hear something funny?" The lights reveal Henry, looking like hell, nose broken, shirt bloody -- chained to a dumpster in an alley.
...
No metaphor. No joke. Henry Crawford has exactly seven minutes to live and he's dying to tell you all about it.
The play opens with Henry's voice ringing out of the darkness, asking, "You want to hear something funny?" The lights reveal Henry, looking like hell, nose broken, shirt bloody -- chained to a dumpster in an alley.
...
[FULL-LENGTH TWISTED COMEDY-DRAMA]
No metaphor. No joke. Henry Crawford has exactly seven minutes to live and he's dying to tell you all about it.
The play opens with Henry's voice ringing out of the darkness, asking, "You want to hear something funny?" The lights reveal Henry, looking like hell, nose broken, shirt bloody -- chained to a dumpster in an alley.
Swinging from belligerent to obsequious, he prepares the audience to hear the whole sad, twisted tale of how he found himself in this predicament.
His story starts late the night before, when he is visited by first, his free-spirit girlfriend, Vanessa, and later, her erratic brother, Luke, who turn his life upside down with their inscrutable, shifting agendas and a bewildering mix of physical, mental, sexual, and yes — literary — intimidation. The characters present a microcosm of class (and sexual) warfare in our society. Henry comes from privilege, yet bemoans his lot in life. Vanessa and Luke are seemingly homeless wanderers who take over Henry's life, exposing his hidden prejudices and insecurities. Henry's neighbor Eddy/Edwina goes against gender stereotype at every turn.
No metaphor. No joke. Henry Crawford has exactly seven minutes to live and he's dying to tell you all about it.
The play opens with Henry's voice ringing out of the darkness, asking, "You want to hear something funny?" The lights reveal Henry, looking like hell, nose broken, shirt bloody -- chained to a dumpster in an alley.
Swinging from belligerent to obsequious, he prepares the audience to hear the whole sad, twisted tale of how he found himself in this predicament.
His story starts late the night before, when he is visited by first, his free-spirit girlfriend, Vanessa, and later, her erratic brother, Luke, who turn his life upside down with their inscrutable, shifting agendas and a bewildering mix of physical, mental, sexual, and yes — literary — intimidation. The characters present a microcosm of class (and sexual) warfare in our society. Henry comes from privilege, yet bemoans his lot in life. Vanessa and Luke are seemingly homeless wanderers who take over Henry's life, exposing his hidden prejudices and insecurities. Henry's neighbor Eddy/Edwina goes against gender stereotype at every turn.