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Arrangements

Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy  /  2w, 4m

Ken Weitzman

Winner! 2003 L. Arnold Weissberger Award

Arrangements

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 4m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Not Applicable
  • Suggested Use
    • Scene work
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 2003 L. Arnold Weissberger Award

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Summary
In the dank basement of a flower shop, a college dropout meets a morbidly obese woman twice his age. 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 consumption and abstinence, attraction and repulsion, expression and repression.
History
Arrangements was first produced Off Broadway by the Atlantic Theatre Company, under managing director Andrew D. Hamingson and artistic director Neil Pepe, in New York City in January 2005. It was directed by Christian Parker.
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Performing Groups
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.
ROS – Donna’s younger sister. Mid 30s. Obsessively body-conscious for fear of becoming Donna.
KETIH – Ros’s business partner and ‘lover’ in that order. Late 30s. Terrified of chaos. Phobic.
HOMELESS MAN – Imposing. Also plays: FITNESS INSTRUCTOR and O.A. SPEAKER (offstage voices.)

It is important to keep in mind that the characters in this play are desperately
trying to save one another, though they may go about doing so in
circuitous, troubling, or destructive ways.
Stakes should be very high, outsized, even for seemingly small things; a
heightened reality. Nothing is casual. This is not a small, intimate, psychological
play. Emotions are real but all is anxious, urgent; not false,
but heightened

  • Time Period Present Day
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Not Applicable, Drag Performance
  • Cautions
    • Strong Language
    • Mild Adult Themes

Media

"A fantastic production packed with a beautiful 'arrangement' of hilariously inventive comedy and well developed, touching drama." - San Diego Playbill

"We are reminded that our most self-destructive behavior originates from our profound desire to live and to love. This exploration of gluttony - well written and well executed - is sad and strangely beautiful. We watch Donna as she responds to her pain in a grotesque manner, and we understand that in her own way, she is doing what she can to make it hurt less. At evening's end, we leave knowing we’ve all done the same." - San Diego Writers Monthly

"In a season that saw Eve Ensler obsessing about her tummy on Broadway in the short-lived The Good Body and with Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, a sold-out hit at the Lucille Lortel, Mr. Weitzman's black comedy or 'tale of obsession and consumption' adds yet another delicious take on this subject." - CurtainUp

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)
  • Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)

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Ken Weitzman

Ken Weitzman
Ken Weitzman’s plays include The Catch (The Denver Center Theatre Company), Fire in the Garden (Indiana Repertory Theatre), The As If Body Loop (Humana Festival), Arrangements (Atlantic Theatre Company), Spin Moves (The Summer Play Festival), Stadium 360 (Out of Hand Theater) ...
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