Table For One? by Claire Haywood

A comedy that follows two men and two women as they stumble through the singles scene.

CAST:  2m 2f ( ages 20-35)

"I feel like I'm living in a war zone.  Women are getting madder and men are rushing off in  droves to bonding sessions. The whole scene terrifies me!" says Jenny, the successful magazine editor who has been hurt in relationships once too often.  After a disastrous night at a party she finds herself in bed with Nick, a teacher from Canberra, who has a penchant for 'conferencing' and an intriguing aura of mystery.

At  the same party, her art student neighbour Fran pairs up with Robert , an aspiring stand up comedian.  "Being male and thirty in the nineties is a nightmare!  Macho is retro, wimps are self-destructing faster that the rebirth rate, and gay just isn't everybody's scene" says Robert in his audition for a comedy spot in a nightclub.  

Table for One? follows these two separate relationships over the course of a year, from their breakthroughs to their breakdowns.  The male shortage: media myth or reality?  What has the sexual revolution really achieved?  His Pants For Her: a subversive marketing ploy designed to confuse and emasculate?  Laugh, cry and angst with Jenny, Nick, Robert and Fran as they stumble through the singles scene in this hilarious comedy about sexual politics.
 

" ... able to walk that fine line between funny and serious and it speaks to the me generation. I give this one ten out of ten. It really got the audience laughing, in fact the applause was thunderous. Really punchy. I would recommend this play to anybody. "      
Review by Tony Talbot, ABC RADIO.

Monologues from the play are published in Masterclass: Monologues for Men and Masterclass: Monologues for Women by Dean Carey (1995) Available from Currency Press, Australia.


Table For One? is available from Wonderland Productions.
Email: claire@wonderlandproductions.com.au

Cost:  AU$25- (standard postage included)