THE SUNKEN LIVING ROOM

Synopsis:

November, 1978.  Evening.  Suburban Miami, Florida.  Sixteen-year-old Wade--effeminate and studious-- sits in his family's showpiece living room, trying to finish a book report for school.  His seventeen-year-old brother Chip shows up, a coke-snorting jock.  Chip hits Wade up for some cash and takes off, leaving his possibly pregnant girlfriend Tammy behind.  Wade never gets his homework done, but he learns a thing or two about himself from Tammy, and about compassion from Chip, when that fearless facade finally cracks.

Characters:

WADE, 16. A scrawny, naive bookworm.

LYNNETTE, early 40s. Wade's attractive but distracted mother.

CHIP, 17. Wade's sexy, athletic, volatile brother.

TAMMY, 17. Chip's sexually-experienced pothead girlfriend.

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NEW THEATRE  Coral Gables, FL.  World Premiere co-production with Southern Rep. 

Director, Ryan Rilette. (L to R: Rudy Mungaray as Chip, John Magaro as Wade. ) Set Design by Jesse Dreikosen.  Costumes by K. Blair Brown.

L to R: Rudy Mungaray, Arianne Ellison and John Magaro.

John Magaro as Wade; Arianne Ellison as Tammy.