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ISBN 978-0-573-69748-7 Ken Weitzman
Dramatic Comedy
4m, 2f
Interior
In the dank basement of a flower shop, when a college dropout meets a morbidly obese woman twice his age, chaos ensues. What follows is a beautiful and troubling romance in which the couple plots to unravel the tightly wound lives of all those around them. A biting, comic tale of obsession and repression, abstinence and consumption, expression and repression.
"A fantastic production packed with a beautiful 'arrangement' of hilariously inventive comedy and well developed, touching drama."-San Diego Playbill
Winner of the 2003 L. Arnold Weissberger Award
FEE: $75 per performance Character Descriptions:ROBBY – 19, passionate, exuberant, impressionable. Lost and searching.
DAVID – Robbie’s older brother. Late 20s to early 30s. Married. Desperate for his planning ways to rub off on Robby.
DONNA – Obese, late-30s. Sexy, smart, fierce and funny. Raging conflict
between exploding Ros’s life for her sister’s own good and trying
desperately to stay connected to her. Regardless of havoc she
wreaks, she always believes it’s the right thing to do.
ROS – Donna’s younger sister. Mid-30s. Co-owner of the flower shop.
Obsessively body-conscious for fear of becoming Donna. Fights desperately to remain in control.
KEITH – Ros’s business partner and ‘lover’ in that order. Late-30s. Terrified of chaos. Phobic. Capable of sudden explosive outbursts.
HOMELESS MAN – Imposing.
FITNESS INSTRUCTOR (played by the same actor playing the Homeless
Man) – Offstage voice. A peppy guru.
O.A. SPEAKER (played by the same actor playing the Homeless Man) –
Offstage voice. Sincere.
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