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What They Have

  • Kate Robin
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573663765

In What They Have, as in "Six Feet Under," happiness is fleeting and illusory and things are seldom what they seem.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2003 Princess Grace Award for Playwriting
Connie and Jonas are a successful industry couple. Their friends Suzanne, a struggling painter, and Matt, a struggling musician, can't afford to fix the roof. But stay tuned because in this funny, poignant and always truthful new play, lives can change in a heartbeat, and things aren't necessarily what they seem.

In What They Have, as in "Six Feet Under," happiness is fleeting and illusory and things are seldom what they seem. A complex and constantly morphing landscape of dissatisfactions links all four characters. They're motivated by the need for creative fulfillment, money and the ultimate sense of accomplishment: a child. Unrequited dreams – and dreams achieved that turn out to be nightmares – shift the ground under everyone's feet.

REVIEWS:

"A realistic, intelligent, heartfelt and heartbreaking look at two very different couples living in modern Hollywood... Robin's writing is full of lovely little touches."

 TheatreMania

Premiere Production: What They Have premiered at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, CA in April 2008 under the direction of Chris Fields.
  • Casting: 2M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)

  • CONNIE - very late 30s
    JONAS - a little older
    SUZANNE - very late 30s
    MATT - a little younger
    DR. COSTIGAN - played by the actor playing Matt
    ANESTHESIOLOGIST - played by the actor playing Suzanne
    DR. MORSE - played by the actor playing Jonas
    GENEVA - played by the actress playing Suzanne
    ALLAN KOZAN KATZ - played by the actor playing Matt
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    Connie and Jonas are a successful industry couple. Their friends Suzanne, a struggling painter, and Matt, a struggling musician, can't afford to fix the roof. But stay tuned because in this funny, poignant and always truthful new play, lives can change in a heartbeat, and things aren't necessarily what they seem.In addition to What They Have, Robin's play Anon was also commissioned by South Coast Repertory, and presented as part of the theater's 2004 NewSCRipts series. Her plays have also been developed at Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, JAW/West at Portland Center Stage and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Television and film credits include 'Six Feet Under' (writer/supervising producer) and 'Coming Soon.' In What They Have, as in 'Six Feet Under,' happiness is fleeting and illusory and things are seldom what they seem. A complex and constantly morphing landscape of dissatisfactions links all four characters. They're motivated by the need for creative fulfillment, money and the ultimate sense of accomplishment: a child. Unrequited dreams – and dreams achieved that turn out to be nightmares – shift the ground under everyone's feet.

    $24.95