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Sunken Living Room, The

  • David Caudle
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 1980s
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573662492

A moving period drama about emotional abandonment...a witty and deep piece on many levels.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: 1980s
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Open Flame, Drugs, Smoking, Intense Adult Themes, Nudity/Partial Nudity, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
November, 1978. Wade Minnick, 16, is a slender, effeminate bookworm in suburban Miami. With his distracted mother out playing Bridge, and his pilot father away on a trip, Wade settles down in the family's showpiece living room to read A Passage To India. 

His volatile brother Chip, 17, takes off on a dubious errand, leaving Wade alone with Chip's foxy pothead girlfriend. "Freak" Tammy teaches "brain" Wade more about life and about himself than he could learn from a dozen novels. And when Chip returns, having scored and snorted some serious drugs, Wade's gonna need every ounce of his newfound courage and compassion.
REVIEWS:

David Caudle's new play... is a rarity: a realistic, linear comedy-drama that holds and entertains its audience with an authentic slice of dysfunctional family life.'...funny, touching and disturbing, ...dramatically buoyant theatre.

Times-Picayune

...Sharp period piece... blistering family drama... The Sunken Living Room is a drama with much to say about growing up too soon in a world that's moving too fast.

Sun Sentinel

...Unsettling, funny, poignant... Caudle's writing is full of humor, compassion, keen observation and period-perfect language...

The Miami Herald

Sidelined by the hurricanes, The Sunken Living Room is back at home in Miami, all the better for South Florida audiences, who get to be the first of what will surely be many audiences to experience this delicious drama.

Miami ArtZine

A moving period drama about emotional abandonment...a witty and deep piece on many levels.

nytheatre.com
Premiere Production: The Sunken Living Room received its world premiere at the New Theatre in Miami, Florida, in a co-production with Southern Rep on September 27, 2006. It was directed by Ryan Rilette.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Features Teens, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Color blind casting

  • WADE - 16, a scrawny, naive bookworm who is not yet aware that he's gay
    LYNNETTE - early 40's, Wade's attractive but distanced mother
    CHIP - 17, Wade's sexy, athletic, volatile brother
    TAMMY - 17, Chip's sexually-experienced pothead girlfriend

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    Sunken Living Room, The Script Order Now

    November, 1978. Wade Minnick, 16, is a slender, effeminate bookworm in suburban Miami. With his distracted mother out playing Bridge, and his pilot father away on a trip, Wade settles down in the family's showpiece living room to read A Passage To India. His volatile brother Chip, 17, takes off on a dubious errand, leaving Wade alone with Chip's foxy pothead girlfriend. 'Freak' Tammy teaches 'brain' Wade more about life and about himself than he could learn from a dozen novels. And when Chip returns, having scored and snorted some serious drugs, Wade's gonna need every ounce of his newfound courage and compassion.

    		$24.95

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