I love Robin Rice’s work. Always whimsical yet grounded, safe but also dangerous, funny and heartbreaking. Always an honor to direct.
– Kenny Wade Marshall (Theatre for the Greater Good)
Comedy-drama
2F; 1M
Est. 90 min.
Flexible staging.
Delight’s mother recently died and she’s homeless in New York City. Agnes has just literally landed in a NYC ditch having jumped out of a car to escape from a molester.
Delight keeps her spirits up by pretending everything is okay. When she finds an empty refrigerator box on the sidewalk she declares it’s a mansion and prepares to move in, inviting Agnes to join her. Agnes wants only to return upstate to her home and resume her strictly realistic life.
Both women love nature, but they seem incompatible. When a Central Park pond (and its inhabitants) is poisoned to make it “sparkly clean,” the women discover that realism and pretend working together are stronger than either alone.
Premiere available.
SET REQUIREMENTS: Only a very large, empty refrigerator box. Good to have ability to change colors of lights and use spots.
SEE THE SCRIPT at New Play Exchange.
For inquiries, contact the playwright.
