Cans
- Full Length Play, Drama, Comedy, Contemporary
- 1M, 1F
- ISBN: 9781848424715
"The last year of Dad’s life was a nightmare. But you know what? That was one year in fifty. Rest of his life was pretty much awesome for him, you know? And I keep saying to myself – one year in fifty – that still makes his life, like, ninety-eight-per-cent happy, right? That’s pretty good statistics, right?"
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama, Comedy
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Jen's dad was a chat-show host, a national treasure. But now he's dead and Jen's getting spat at in supermarkets. To make matters worse, Uncle Len has made it his mission to help her get over it.
Hiding from a very hostile world in a very shitty garage, Len and Jen down cider, drown mice, talk crap, mend cats, share painful secrets, tell appalling jokes, and try to work out whether either of them has any kind of future whatsoever.
Stuart Slade's play Cans was first performed at Theatre503, London, in 2014.
REVIEWS:
"Cans holds up a mirror to modern times."
Time Out
"Very, very funny... [an] accomplished debut."
Exeunt Magazine
"A comic and unexpectedly tender two-hander... full of warmth, humour and nuance... an intelligent, funny and humane piece of writing, a very impressive debut."
The Stage
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- Casting: 1M, 1F
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