About Time

by  Cole, Tom

Published: 1991

Acts: 1

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Acts: 1
Male Roles: 1
Female Roles: 1
Flexible Roles: 0
Has Chorus/Extras: No

Synopsis

: ABOUT TIME takes place in the condominium kitchen of an old married couple. Over the course of the day from breakfast and lunch to dinner and a late snack, the couple talk about everything under the sun, especially food, sex, children and aging. She is getting slower than she used to be, in fact it takes all morning to chop vegetables. He cannot move around quite as fast as he once did. Neither see their children as much as they would like. Yet both certainly have their wits about them as a dialogue snaps and crackles its way through 4 scenes. Faced with the thought of mortality, they grapple with what means to share-and to come to the end of a life together.