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Octopus

  • Steve Yockey
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Contemporary
  • 5M
  • ISBN: 9780573663789

A fiercely imaginative and finely tuned new voice... Smartly observed and blissfully performed

San Francisco Chronicle

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Opportunity for Spectacle
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Nudity/Partial Nudity, Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Large Stage
After young couple Kevin and Blake engage in an adventurous and hastily planned night of group sex with the older, more “experienced” Max and Andy, they are left trying to salvage their relationship from a pummeling mix of jealousy, betrayal, telegrams from a soaking wet delivery boy and a ravenous sea monster from the ocean floor. 

This universal love story rendered through a post-modern gay lens slips from domestic comedy into a darkly fantastic fable examining the role and depth of commitment in relationships and what it really means to say the words “I love you.”
REVIEWS:

A fiercely imaginative and finely tuned new voice... Smartly observed and blissfully performed... [Octopus'] tentacles tickle the funny bone, awake the mind and tug on the heart.

San Francisco Chronicle

An evening full of arresting images... classic tragedy seen through a very contemporary ironic lens

Marin Independent Journal

This tale of two gay couples' group sex fling and its serious consequences arrives at a powerful statement about illness and love.

Variety
Premiere Production: Octopus was first presented by Actor's Express Theatre Company with Artistic Director Freddie Ashley and Managing director Zak Topor at the King Plow Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 27, 2008. It was directed by Kate Warner. The play was subsequently presented in its West Coast Premiere by Encore Theatre Company with Artistic Director Lisa Steindler and Magic Theatre with Managing Director David Jobin at the Magic Theatre's Same Sehpard Theater in San Francisco, California on May 17, 2008. It was directed by Kate Warner.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), All Male, Local Celebrity Cameo

  • KEVIN - a man, 20s, handsome, bright, rational, arrogant, reckless
    BLAKE - a man, 20s, witty, innocence and care, maybe a bit hipster
    MAX - a man, 30s, polished, but somewhat like a predatory cat
    ANDY - a man, 40s, fit, confident, and suspending disbelief
    TELEGRAM DELIVERY BOY - a younger man, an idea of youth, beauty and vitality all wrapped in a tight, snappy outfit; a slice of Americana; but there is something darker underneath

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    After young couple Kevin and Blake engage in an adventurous and hastily planned night of group sex with the older, more “experienced” Max and Andy, they are left trying to salvage their relationship from a pummeling mix of jealousy, betrayal, telegrams from a soaking wet delivery boy and a ravenous sea monster from the ocean floor. This universal love story rendered through a post-modern gay lens slips from domestic comedy into a darkly fantastic fable examining the role and depth of commitment in relationships and what it really means to say the words “I love you.”

    		$24.95

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