A short play, staged within The Finn-Brit Players' production Short 'n' Snappy #3:
http://www.finnbritplayers.com/productions/past-productions/sns19-aut
Play blurb:
It’s the second Sunday in June. A beautiful day is painted across Vienna, and its focal point is a cosy little café near the Danube. Freshness from the river and couples waft around. One of those couples happens upon the café, undoing the serenity of the day. Joint faults on all sides culminate in various resignations and a Viennese coffee, bitter in emotion, as well as in taste...
Promo:
This is not a comedy. No one dies, so it's not a tragedy either. Although it may seem too exaggerated to be a true story, in truth it barely scratches what real life can be in its extremes.
This tale offers a glimpse into that, which masked by daily repetition and the passage of time, is so easy to dismiss. A glimpse into matters which are hard to look at, and that's why we don't see them. Into a black hole of sorts, but not an astronomical one. One that resides within.
We know how black holes in the sky form: Take a critical amount of matter, concentrate it to its limits. And beyond. Shake it and bake it until implosion. Personal holes follow a similar recipe, but instead of concentrating on important matters, avoid them for as long as possible. And beyond. Take years due, perchance even a lifetime, of shielding these issues from care, and from cure. Hey presto, you've got a DIY black hole!
Don't stop there. Imagine two persons in close proximity as their respective black holes gravitate in a binary system, emanating ripples of disruption. Throw a third such pathological case into the mix and there it is, a perfect storm of miserables. Thus, even when this three-headed deadlock is confronted by the best of characters, a true heroine in comparison to the rest of the bunch, even she is not enough to push through the event horizon.
This is an unusual f******* day in Vienna. This is a guide to looking at black holes with naked eyes. Well... it's a neat excuse for an author to cough up something nasty onto the paper.
Most of all, this is an avoidance alarm. Please, stay your hand before you snooze it.
written by Vladislav Nenchev
directed by Vladislav Nenchev & Zach Chamberlaine
Cast:
Richard – David Rogers
Sophie – Sarah Puukka
Livia – Paulina Paalama
Matthias – Rick Joosten
Additional credits:
The image is originally from The Finn-Brit Players' webpage for the production.