Production Requirements:

Cast: Four men and four women.

• Robert Jones: Mid to late forties

• Claudette (Clo) Jones:  Mid to late forties

• Heather: Daughter; twenty-two

• Mark: Heather’s fiancé; mid to late twenties

• Pete: Robert’s neighbor and poker buddy; mid-fifties

• Al Stanton: Robert’s boss; late-forties

• Fran: Census taker; early-forties

• Ms. Price: Braxton’s CEO; mid-thirties

Set:

This play is set in the dining room of Robert and Claudette (Clo) Jones.  A rectangular table with four chairs (two on the US side and one at each end) sits at CS, and a china buffet is at UL.  There is a door are UC, with a window on each side.  Floral curtains adorn those windows, and another window DSR.  There is a door at CR that leads to the living room/bedrooms, and a door at CL that leads to the kitchen.  The time is 11:30 A.M.

 

Props:

• Dishes, utensils and food for a complete spaghetti dinner

• Small cardboard box with packing peanuts and tissue paper

• Gold ring

• Large flip chart and display easel

• Note cards and presentation binder

• Landline phone on SL wall

• Two cell phones

• Full-length, white apron with red stains on the front

• Briefcase

• Pizza/Pizza box

• Beer cans

• Dish towels

• Icepack

• Drinking straws

• Purses for Clo & Heather

• Shopping bags

 

Sound Effects:

• Doorbell

• Landline telephone

• Two distinct cellphone ringtones

• Fly buzzing