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Disassembly

  • Steve Yockey
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 3M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573704598

Evan is what you would call "accident-prone." Having suffered from various injuries his entire life, he's now been randomly stabbed. In his apartment, his twin sister and his fiancée are trying to help him recover while fending off a steady stream of visitors and a bitter neighbor with a thing for stuffed cats.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Evan is what you would call "accident-prone." Having suffered from various injuries his entire life, he's now been randomly stabbed. In his apartment, his twin sister and his fiancée are trying to help him recover while fending off a steady stream of visitors and a bitter neighbor with a thing for stuffed cats.

Something isn't quite adding up though. As the morning descends into a buzz of secrets and lies, this dark farce quickly becomes a brutally funny commentary on how, under the right circumstances, violence can take hold of just about anyone.
REVIEWS:

"[S]trange and hilarious and unsettling... [it] had me leaning forward in rapt anticipation of what would happen next."

San Francisco Weekly

"Yockey's play has an infectiously goofy charm that sucks you in... a play with a healthy cynicism but never a self-conscious wink or nod."

Contra Costa Times

"The way [the twists] play out is delightfully perverse, with all sorts of troubling revelations and a hilariously brutal brawl. At only 70 minutes, it's a tightly packed --and tightly wound-- little gem."

 The Idolect

Premiere Production: DISASSEMBLY premiered at Impact Theatre (Melissa Hillman, Artistic Director; Cheshire Isaacs, Managing Director) at LaVal's Subterranean Theatre in Berkeley, California on May 6, 2011. The performance was directed by Desdemona Chiang.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 4F

  • ELLEN - A woman; deeply concerned for her brother, seemingly "normal" except for the inappropriate laughter, singing seizures, and lapses into extreme violence.

  • EVAN / NARRATOR - A man; Ellen's brother, with a good attitude, a generous smile and a lot of unexplained injuries, or at least very poorly explained injuries.

  • DIANE - A woman; Evan's fiancée, surface pretty, surface nice, making it through, but fed-up and breaking, trying her best to work it out.

  • TESSA - A woman; all in black, very put together, overly polite, laughing at herself, past the point where death has any discernible impact.

  • STANLEY - A man; sweet, caring, almost like a big teddy bear, with a healthy dose of psychotically jealous stalker underneath.

  • JEROME / FOX - A man; Ellen's sometime boyfriend, very quiet, very tense, not very nice, but very much in love with the idea of love.

  • MIRABELLE / CROW - A woman; Ellen and Evan's neighbor, she chews gum, she has cats, real and imagined, and a lot of attitude, somehow, oddly alluring.

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    Evan is what you would call "accident-prone." Having suffered from various injuries his entire life, he's now been randomly stabbed. In his apartment, his twin sister and his fiancée are trying to help him recover while fending off a steady stream of visitors and a bitter neighbor with a thing for stuffed cats.

    Something isn't quite adding up though. As the morning descends into a buzz of secrets and lies, this dark farce quickly becomes a brutally funny commentary on how, under the right circumstances, violence can take hold of just about anyone.

    		$24.95

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