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Future Thinking

  • Eliza Clark
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573705922

"A garden of comedy [...] Future Thinking is elaborate, modern and entertaining."

The Orange Curtain Review

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Middle-aged super fan Peter finds himself in a makeshift interrogation room at the mercy of Comic Con security after violating the restraining order placed against him by his favorite television starlet. Meanwhile, spoiled starlet Chiara is holed up in a hotel suite with her stage mom and bodyguard, trapped by the demands that come with being a rising star.

Peter is determined to fulfill his destiny: a meeting with the twenty-three-year-old where he can deliver her an important and mysterious message. Everyone has a fantasy, and soon they'll collide with each other, and with reality.

REVIEWS:

"A garden of comedy [...] Future Thinking is elaborate, modern, and entertaining."

 The Orange Curtain Review

"What begins as a play about how people's fantasies can get in the way of their reality turns into a play in which people's reality can also screw up their fantasties."

 Ocweekly.com

"Clark's play is such a captivating treat, as are its charcters, who manage at once to be both quirky and absolutely real."

 Stage Scene LA

"Come for the Comic Con appeal but stay for the true comedy of Future Thinking, a highly literate and wildly funny world premiere at South Coast Repertory."

 Los Angeles Times

Premiere Production: Future Thinking premiered at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA in March 2016 under the direction of Lila Neugebauer.
  • Casting: 3M, 2F

  • PETER FORD - male, a super fan
    JIM BARNARD - male, a security guard
    CHIARA FARROW - female, a superstar
    CRYSTAL FARROW - female, a stage mom
    SANDY MILLS - male, a bodyguard
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    Middle-aged super fan Peter finds himself in a makeshift interrogation room at the mercy of Comic Con security after violating the restraining order place against him by his favorite television starlet. Meanwhile, spoiled starlet Chiara is holed up in a hotel suite with her stage mom and bodyguard, trapped by the demands that come with being a rising star.

    Peter is determined to fulfill his destiny: a meeting with the twenty-three-year-old where he can deliver her an important and mysterious message. Everyone has a fantasy, and soon they'll collide with each other, and with reality.

    $24.95