The Sunken Living Room
by David Caudle

Name: The Sunken Living Room
Brand: David Caudle
SKU: 9780573662492
Rating: 4.17 (7 reviews)

The Sunken Living Room Book Cover — The Sunken Living Room Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

105 mins 1980s Role(s) for Teen(s) Interior Set Period Costumes American Comedy

Synopsis

2m 2fNovember 1978. Wade Minnick 16 is a slender effeminate bookworm in suburban Miami.

With his distracted mother out playing Bridge and his pilot father away on a trip Wade settles down in the family's showpiece living room to read A Passage To India.

His volatile brother Chip 17 takes off on a dubious errand leaving Wade alone with Chip's foxy pothead girlfriend.

"Freak" Tammy teaches "brain" Wade more about life and about himself than he could learn from a dozen novels.

And wh

Press Reviews

"A moving period drama about emotional abandonment...a witty and deep piece on many levels."
— nytheatre.com

"...Unsettling, funny, poignant... Caudle's writing is full of humor, compassion, keen observation and period-perfect language..."
— The Miami Herald

"...Sharp period piece... blistering family drama... The Sunken Living Room is a drama with much to say about growing up too soon in a world that's moving too fast."
— Sun Sentinel

"Sidelined by the hurricanes, The Sunken Living Room is back at home in Miami, all the better for South Florida audiences, who get to be the first of what will surely be many audiences to experience this delicious drama."
— Miami ArtZine

"David Caudle's new play... is a rarity: a realistic, linear comedy-drama that holds and entertains its audience with an authentic slice of dysfunctional family life."...funny, touching and disturbing, ...dramatically buoyant theatre."
— Times-Picayune

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Lynnette early 40s, Wade's attractive but distracted mother	female	40s	early 40s, Wade's attractive but distracted mother
Chip 17, Wade's sexy, athletic, volatile brother	male	—	17, Wade's sexy, athletic, volatile brother
Tammy 17, Chip's sexually-experienced pothead girlfriend	—	—	17, Chip's sexually-experienced pothead girlfriend
Wade 16, a scrawny, naive bookworm who is not yet aware that he's gay	—	—	16, a scrawny, naive bookworm who is not yet aware that he's gay