Birthday Boy
by Chris Newbound

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Highlights

90 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

Matt returns from a break at work to the company lunch room, where he meets new employee Melora.

A spark ignites almost immediately, but the blossoming friendship is still subject to life's realities of age, responsibility, and commitment.

Meanwhile Matt's wife Arianne has plans for a celebratory evening at home that get interrupted by an unintentional spark of her own.

Birthday Boy is about what happens when there's a sudden connection between two people that if pursued could interfere with a life that has been going along just fine; about the paths we choose to take and those we choose not to; the commitments we do honor, the worthwhile sacrifices we must make.

In short, a celebration of the messy, imperfect, life that being a husband, a wife, a father, a mother, all entails in order to evolve into the grownups we're meant to be.

Characters

Character
Melora

About to turn thirty, a colleague of Matt's

Arianne

Matt's wife

Julian Moody

Student of Arianne's, in his twenties

Matt

About to turn forty

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573701092
ISBN-10 0573701091

Birthday Boy is a comedy play written by Chris Newbound and published by Samuel French .

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