Special Occasions

Synopsis

A play in two acts

A two act comedy for a cast of 1 man and 1 woman.

Amy and Michael Ruskin are celebrating their fifteenth wedding anniversary and their upcoming divorce.

Michael is a reformed television writer turned playwright.

Amy is competitive but inwardly insecure.

The play is structured as a series of flashbacks.

After the opening scene, the play goes back in time ten years and recreates the various special occasions which make up marriages: anniversaries, weddings, funerals, play openings and other catastrophes.

And, after all is said and done, the couple ends as they began on their fifteenth anniversary, dancing to a recording of "Love Is Here to Stay".