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Living With Lois

    by Martin Paul Roche



Drama Play Script: 'Living With Lois' by Martin Paul Roche

Synopsis

Darren is the epitome of middle-aged manhood: of modernity, of masculinity, of marriage, of monotony. His life is filled with satisfying expectations, roles, cultural and relationship norms and the identity which comes with them. But that is the outer Darren. 

Because there is also the inner Darren who lives in a world that the ‘real’ world never sees. An alternate world where he knows himself by more than just another name.

It's a surreal place of solitude, loneliness, questioning. But equally, such hopes and desires; a yearning to be free and one day, to be at ease in more than his own skin. A world of comfort, of confidence in which ‘just being yourself’ takes on a fulfilled life of its own. But it is a world where only he exists and with him, his secret. And with his secret come the issues he fights with every minute of every day: conflict, confusion, guilt, fear, betrayal.

They are now polluting and poisoning both worlds and will soon make them both uninhabitable for him. Time is running out. And why?

Because Darren is trying to please two people in one body.


Characters

(3m, 2f)

  • Darren/Lois -  50+, Jackie’s husband (or of an age old enough to be the father of Lucy)
  • Jackie - 50+, Darren’s wife (or of an age old enough to be the mother of Lucy)
  • Lucy - 25+, their daughter
  • Simon - 25+, Lucy’s husband
  • Jo - 30+, friend of Darren (and only features in act 2 but appears at very end of act 1)

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