Summary

So in directing class we always have to write a summary of the play we are directing. Every semester I have struggled with this, but every time it gets a bit easier. I managed to write the summary for Dead City in about 15 minutes, which I was very impressed with. It really helped me, because this play is so full of action, to define what exactly is happening on stage. I wanted to share it will ya'll:

Samantha Blossom, an optimistic forty-something advertising agent, dreams of Jewel, a young poet, staggering home on the pedestrian path near the West Side Highway at sunrise. Cut back to the morning before - June 16th, 2004. New York City. Samantha is preparing breakfast for her husband Gabriel in her Upper East Side apartmnent. Sorting through the mail, she finds a letter addressed to him from his music manager. The scent of the envelope raises in her a panic. She moves about her day in a half-daze, running into an annoying aquaintances, then zoning out to reminece about her secret online lover; imagining a friend's husband speaking to her from the grave while at his funeral; dreaming of her dead son in a seedy basement bar. She runs into Jewel, the daughter of an acqaintance, in an online magazine offive, then again at the library, and again in a maternity ward. Same is strangely drawn to this moody intellectual, and, having been sorely let down by her rendevous with her online lover on a dock near the Hudson, decides to follow Jewel to a lesbian nightclub, hoping that some meaningful connection can finally be made. Jewel becomes belligerant, and Sam drags her back to her apartment for hot cocoa. After Jewel leaves, Sam crawls back into bed with Gabriel, quickly recounting her day before passing out. In the dark, Gabriel is drawn to reveal his saucy affair with his manager, his suspicion of Sam's own infidelity, his fantasy of making love to Jewel, how amazed he was when Sam was pregnant, and how he can't connect ot her anymore. Waking Sam up, Gabriel tells her that all he needs is something small, and they fall asleep touching each other.

My summary of the change will probably change. More to come.