Future Thinking
by Eliza Clark

Future Thinking Book Cover
Future Thinking Cover

Highlights

120 mins Present Day Multicultural Casting Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

Middle-aged super fan Peter finds himself in a makeshift interrogation room at the mercy of Comic Con security after violating the restraining order placed against him by his favorite television starlet.

Meanwhile, spoiled starlet Chiara is holed up in a hotel suite with her stage mom and bodyguard, trapped by the demands that come with being a rising star.

Peter is determined to fulfill his destiny: a meeting with the twenty-three-year-old where he can deliver her an important and mysterious message.

All Chiara wants is for her mom and her bodyguard to get lost, preferably together.

Everyone has a fantasy, and soon they’ll collide with each other, and with reality.

Press Reviews

"What begins as a play about how people's fantasies can get in the way of their reality turns into a play in which people's reality can also screw up their fantasies."

— Ocweekly.com

"Clark’s play is such a captivating treat, as are its characters, who manage at once to be both quirky and absolutely real."

— Stage Scene LA

"Come for the Comic Con appeal but stay for the true comedy of Future Thinking, a highly literate and wildly funny world premiere at South Coast Repertory."

— Los Angeles Times

Characters

Character
Jim Barnard

male, a security guard

Chiara Farrow

female, a superstar

Crystal Farrow

female, a stage mom

Sandy Mills

male, a bodyguard

Peter Ford

male, a super fan

Videos

South Coast Rep Artistic Director Marc Masterson discusses Future Thinking

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573705922
ISBN-10 0573705925

Future Thinking is a comedy play written by Eliza Clark and published by Samuel French .

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Performance Rights

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Amateur Only
Fee: Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)

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