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/F
Est. 80 min.
Flexible staging.
Delight’s mother just died, she’s homeless in New York City, and her pretend best friend has deserted her. 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. Agnes appears, having just hitchhiked from upstate NY to escape from a terrible experience.
Delight wants to enlist Agnes as her best friend. Agnes, a proactive realist, wants nothing to do with pretend. Both women love nature, but they seem incompatible. When a pond and its inhabitants that Delight loves is poisoned to make it “sparkly clean,” the women discover that realism and pretend together are stronger than either alone.
On their journey, major blockades are erected by a shape-shifter in their memories, appearing as teachers, a doctor, a blind date, and others. (Delight’s memories are always enhanced by her imagination.)
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.
