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 in his apartment, when he is visited by first, his free-spirit girlfriend, Vanessa, and later, her erratic brother, Luke.
Vanessa and Luke turn Henry's life upside down with their inscrutable, shifting agendas and a bewildering mix of physical, mental, sexual, and yes -- literary -- intimidation.
The four characters in this play present a microcosm of class (and sexual) warfare in our society. Henry comes from privilege, yet bemoans his lot in life. His new girlfriend, Vanessa, and her brother, Luke (adopted, of different ethnicities), are seemingly homeless wanderers who turn Henry's life upside down, exposing his prejudices and insecurities. Henry's neighbor Eddy (Edwina) goes against female 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 in his apartment, when he is visited by first, his free-spirit girlfriend, Vanessa, and later, her erratic brother, Luke.
Vanessa and Luke turn Henry's life upside down with their inscrutable, shifting agendas and a bewildering mix of physical, mental, sexual, and yes -- literary -- intimidation.
The four characters in this play present a microcosm of class (and sexual) warfare in our society. Henry comes from privilege, yet bemoans his lot in life. His new girlfriend, Vanessa, and her brother, Luke (adopted, of different ethnicities), are seemingly homeless wanderers who turn Henry's life upside down, exposing his prejudices and insecurities. Henry's neighbor Eddy (Edwina) goes against female stereotype at every turn.