Genre:
Comedy
Runtime:
105 - 120 mins
Cast:
2 male(s), 2 female(s), gender-flexible
Synopsis:
Sandy and Sylvia live together in Sandy's house even though she has her own apartment. They are the up and coming new rich of America but their lives are so caught up in their
work that they don't even realize that a homeless man has followed Sandy home because Sandy left his keys at the local news stand where Otis hangs out.
Otis is a homeless black man whose background is shaded and hidden. After weeks in the attic room he has added on in Sandy's house, Otis is discovered by the maid who becomes very attracted to him. At the close of act one, everyone knows something is going on in the house and finally Otis enters and introduces himself
as their live in man who is now suing since he was hurt falling on the front porch.
Act two reveals that Otis was once a high powered lawyer for firms that were less than good to the environment and he had to give up his life after awhile because he won all his cases. Sandy becomes very attracted to the possibility of just living under a bridge with other homeless people so he trades place with Otis who has
now slept with both the maid and Sylvia.
In the end, everyone has to leave because some of the big, old firms have found out that Otis has surfaced and they want him, alive. This is a comic, television style look at how fast society is going, what we are doing with homelessness as an issue, sex, trust and who really has the better life, the homeless or the mortgage payers going belly up in a market that raises and falls on a dime?
The play is fast and imitates television sit-coms in its rhythmic structure. The play imitates television and satirizes it at the same time. The story was written
as a spoof on television sitcom madness.
Four characters, one set and one funny story.
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