Arrangements
- Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day
- 4M, 2F
- ISBN: 9780573697487
"A fantastic production packed with a beautiful 'arrangement' of hilariously inventive comedy and well developed, touching drama."
San Diego Playbill
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dramatic Comedy
- Time Period: Present Day
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
- Accolades:
- Winner! 2003 L. Arnold Weissberger Award
A biting, comic tale of consumption and abstinence, attraction and repulsion, expression and repression.
REVIEWS:
A fantastic production packed with a beautiful 'arrangement' of hilariously inventive comedy and well developed, touching drama.
San Diego Playbill
...we are reminded that our most self-destructive behavior originates from our profound desire to live and to love. This exploration of gluttony - well written and well executed - is sad and strangely beautiful. We watch Donna as she responds to her pain in a grotesque manner, and we understand that in her own way, she is doing what she can to make it hurt less. At evening's end, we leave knowing we’ve all done the same.
San Diego Writer's Monthly
In a season that saw Eve Ensler obsessing about her tummy on Broadway in the short
lived The Good Body
s Fat Pig, a sold-out hit at the Lucille Lortel, Mr. Weitzman's black comedy or 'tale of obsession and consumption' adds yet another delicious take on this subject.
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Characters
- Casting: 4M, 2F
- Casting Attributes: Local Celebrity Cameo, Drag performance, Features Children
- Casting Notes: It is important to keep in mind that the characters in this play are desperately trying to save one another, though they may go about doing so incircuitous, troubling, or destructive ways. Stakes should be very high, outsized, even for seemingly small things; a heightened reality. Nothing is casual. This is not a small, intimate, psychologicalplay. Emotions are real but all is anxious, urgent; not false, but heightened
ROBBY - 19, passionate, exuberant, impressionable. Lost and searching.
DAVID - Robbie's older brother. Late 20s to early 30s. Married. Desperate for his planning ways to rub off on Robby.
DONNA - Obese, late-30s. Sexy, smart, fierce and funny.
ROS - Donna's younger sister. Mid 30s. Obsessively body-conscious for fear of becoming Donna.
KEITH - Ros's business partner and 'lover' in that order. Late 30s. Terrified of chaos. Phobic.
HOMELESS MAN - Imposing. Also plays: FITNESS INSTRUCTOR and O.A. SPEAKER (offstage voices)
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In the dank basement of a flower shop, a college dropout meets a morbidly obese woman twice his age. What follows is a beautiful and troubling romance in which the couple plots to unravel the tightly wound lives of all those around them. A biting, comic tale of consumption and abstinence, attraction and repulsion, expression and repression. |
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