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Cake, The

  • Bekah Brunstetter
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day
  • 1M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573706875

"Brilliant [...] Powerful and meaningful [...] great writing [...] great direction [...] abundant wit and humor."

LA Post-Examiner

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Della makes cake, not judgement calls -- those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della's life gets turned upside down. She can't really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.
REVIEWS:

"The play's tight narrative construction is apparent from the opening scene, which immediately seduces us with Della's bubbly charm [...] What's refreshing and heartening about The Cake is its characters' willingness to face their differences and limitations head-on [...] This is us as we could be, if we'd all just try a little harder."

 Los Angeles Times

"Recommended [...] Stage Raw Top 10 [...] a singularly savory dramedy that crystallizes a contentious issue and, with empathy for both sides, portrays it in an edifying and insightful way [...] I left the theater feeling moved and enlightened."

 Stage Raw

"Brilliant [...] Powerful and meaningful [...] great writing [...] great direction [...] abundant wit and humor."

 LA Post-Examiner

"Wow! [...] puts a deeply personal, delightful down-home face on the Gay-Wedding-Cake Wars [...] I cried, I learned, I loved."

 StageSceneLA

Premiere Production: The Cake premiered at the Echo Theatre Company in Los Angeles, CA in June 2017 under the direction of Jennifer Chambers.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 3F

  • DELLA - 40s, pleasant, round, with a mass of big, curly hair
    TIM - 40s, her husband, a good ol' boy
    JEN - early 30s, with a wedding binder, who has dreamt of her wedding day her whole life
    MACY - early 30s, her reluctant fiancé, African American.

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    Della makes cake, not judgement calls -- those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della's life gets turned upside down. She can't really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.

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