Tipp, The Taxi Driver
Tom Casling
Genre: Comedy
Cast size: 5
Duration: Two Act
Tom Casling | Comedy | Full-length | 3m, 2f + support
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This play could easily fit within the romantic comedy genre if it was not for the unlikely protagonists. It is a comedy which explores the complex relationships which can develop between the most unlikely of people through what was a chance encounter.
It focuses on various taxi journeys between Durham and Newcastle. Rachel is a new and aspiring actress who has moved from Hull to the North East to be in a new TV series. Unfortunately, the days and hours are long, and Rachel does not drive. She plans to get herself a flat in the area but as a short-term measure she stays with friends at Durham University and engages Tipp, a taxi driver, to take her to and from work at the studios. Out of the kindness of his heart Tipp decides to take on the work as her personal driver, rather than as a taxi driver, to help her to keep costs down. In his spare time Tipp also decides to teach Rachel to drive.
As the play progresses, we begin to see a kind of attraction develop between the two characters, much to the concern of Tipp’s wife Margaret, who recognises a flaw in Tipp that she had seen many years earlier. In some ways she knows him better than he knows himself.
As Rachel’s soap role develops so too does her relationship with her leading character and the inevitable fall-out ensues. The journey Rachel and Tipp initially embarked on turns out to be a much longer journey than the initial fare from Durham to Newcastle and the couple find themselves on an emotional rollercoaster which can only end in one way.
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