15 Seconds
by François Archambault

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Synopsis

Brimming with dark and brittle humor, 15 SECONDS is a play about a young female copy writer, her pro-sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X welfare-bum, and his brother, handicapped by cerebral palsy.

These four characters are constantly making choices about reality and illusion; imagination and fantasy; the hale and the handicapped -- about the way things are and the way they might be.

The play's characters each exist in their worlds utterly without context, objectified to the point where their fantasies about who they might have been are all that define them to themselves, and who they superficially appear to be is all that defines them to each other.

15 SECONDS does something completely unexpected with this material -- chance reigns supreme in a world where 15 seconds of inattention or error can irrevocably determine the shape of lives, and the audience is denied a smug superiority.

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 4 total roles, 2 female and 2 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Talon Books
Year Published
2000
ISBN 10
0889224277
ISBN 13
9780889224278
Binding
Paperback
Edition
1st
Print Length
96 pages
Place Published
Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Language
English
LCCN
362995
LCC
PQ3919.2.A698 A61413 2000
DCC
842/.914
Print
15 Seconds is a Canadian play written by and published by Talon Books in Burnaby, B.C., Canada, 2000. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780889224278 and an ISBN-10 of 0889224277.

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