COUPLES
Written by Thom McKeown

A 6-ACT DRAMA

Auditions will be held asap, with a rehearsal schedule to follow shortly after. Please get in touch as soon as possibleAll interested actors should please email their full CV with detailed acting experience and productions/directors listed, contact details, plus recent headshots and if possible a showreel link asap to:

estrada.arts.email@gmail.com

If you're a talented, committed and reliable actor - with speaking role experience on a theatre stage - and are interested in this project - please read on and get in touch as soon as possible - details below:

Act 1: REPERCUSSIONS   Alice is behaving oddly as she sits staring into the middle distance. Her partner Kevin is aware that something is troubling her, so he attempts to find out what the problem is. The performances should show high physical and facial emotion from both, conveying the mutual hurt that develops.  
Characters:  KEVIN  ALICE

Act 2: BEING HONEST Steven and Kathy are seated at a table - and the conversation moves on to the emotive topic of trust between a couple.  
Characters: STEVEN  KATHY

Act 3: THE McVAYS   The McVays are a married couple whose relationship has become stale. A nostalgic conversation moves their feelings towards a mutual expression of love.
Characters: McVAY  MRS. McVAY

Act 4: OUTDATED  Gina, a schoolteacher, is awaiting the arrival of Alex, who works in the city’s financial industry, her date whom she’d contacted online. An unexpected development however, concludes their assignation.  
Characters:  GINA  ALEX

Act 5: MORE THAN ENOUGH  Ben has been reluctantly forced into caring for his emotionally and mentally ill partner Maggie and his already fractured demeanour is about to reach breaking point.

Characters:  BEN  MAGGIE

Act 6: DIZZY Lisa is alone at the table, nursing a mug of coffee. She was due to meet Gary but he's failed to appear. Lisa outpours her feelings aloud in this monologue. Eventually she gathers up her things and leaves. Shortly afterwards, Gary appears.  

Characters:  LISA  GARY