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Swimmers

  • Rachel Bonds
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 7M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573706714

"Bonds has a terrific feel for the painful absurdities of personal relationships -- whether collegial or would-be romantic -- and the inanities of the surface camaraderie of the modern open workplace."

San Francisco Chronicle

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Drugs, Alcohol, Strong Language, Smoking

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Coyotes evading police. Billboards predicting the end of the world. It's been a strange day at the office, and it's only nine a.m. Moving floor by floor from the basement up to the roof, scenes between employees in a corporate office explore the angst-ridden relationships between those that people often take the most advantage of: their coworkers.
REVIEWS:

"Bonds has a terrific feel for the painful absurdities of personal relationships -- whether collegial or would-be romantic -- and the inanities of the surface camaraderie of the modern open workplace."

 San Francisco Chronicle

FIVE STARS! "[Swimmers] is such a strong outing that it makes one eager to see what else Bonds has up her sleeve [...] the dialogue is often funny in its painful awkwardness. The characters are a charming, fascinating group of people."

 Marin Independent Journal

"[Bonds] writes with a sensitive touch that, along with the pain, also acknowledges the inescapable humanity of her characters and the humor that accompanies their angst. Mix empathy and laughs with a light splash of existential dread and you have a pretty potent dramatic framework."

 Pacific Sun

Premiere Production: Swimmers premiered at Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, CA in March 2016 under the direction Mike Donahue.

Characters

  • Casting: 7M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Role(s) for Black Actor(s), Role(s) for Asian Actor(s)

  • WALTER - Facilities Management. African-American. Late 40's/early 50's.
    TOM - Sales. Could be any race/ethnicity. Early 40's.
    FARRAH - Product Development. Could be any non-WASPy race/ethnicity. Early 30's.
    YURI - Product Development. Russian. Moved to US for college. Mid-to-late 30's.
    BILL - Product Development. African-American. Early 30's.
    RANDY - Sales. Could be any race/ethnicity. Late 20's-Early 30's.
    PRIYA - Sales. First-generation American, born to Indian parents. Late 20's-Early 30's.
    CHARLENE - Administration. Latina. Early-to-mid 40's.
    VIVIAN - Intern. Very beautiful and ethnically ambiguous. Early 20's - 25.
    DENNIS - R&D. Overweight. White. 40ish.
    GEORGE - COO. White. Mid 50's.

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    Coyotes evading police. Billboards predicting the end of the world. It's been a strange day at the office, and it's only nine a.m. Moving floor by floor from the basement up to the roof, scenes between employees in a corporate office explore the angst-ridden relationships between those that people often take the most advantage of: their coworkers.

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