Is There Anybody There?
Martin Paul Roche
Genre: Drama
Cast size: 3
Duration: Two Act
Martin Paul Roche | Drama | Full-length | 3f
Short synopsis
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Sue has spent her life married to an empty space. Her husband. A man who wasn’t ever there; not with her anyhow. And she fooled herself into thinking her manufactured life had been manufactured by her. But a perfect life is not always what it seems, and her husband made her realise that.
When Sue meets Ann, an employee of her late husband, she finds a soul mate in more ways than one. And following a chance conversation, they hatch a plan to laugh, to drink, to joke and to make fun with impunity about the afterlife and those who ask the question: “Is there anybody there?” But life can bring with it unexpected turns and what begins as a joke soon becomes much more.
‘Is There Anybody There?’ explores a range of emotions, expectations and fears. It questions what motivates us, what we want out of life ... and what we think about what might come after it. It explores friendship and what we expect from it and then within the cracks between relationships, what is really going on and what happens when it goes wrong and why.
Finally, it considers those times when we are alone and assess our lives with that inner monologue we all rehearse; what part of us is actually speaking and what part answers us back? The journey the characters go on begins and ends in two very different places and the question of the piece is not resolved ... that is a matter for the audience to decide. What will you decide? Was anybody there?
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