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Alternate Proposal

Ten-Minute Play

Premiered January 5, 2008
Camino Real Playhouse (San Juan Capistrano, CA)

• Winner
  ShowOff! International Playwriting Festival
  Camino Real Playhouse (San Juan Capistrano, CA)
  Premiere production, January 4-20, 2008
   
• Runner Up
  Eighth Annual Ten-Minute Playwrighting Contest
  Actor's Theatre (Santa Cruz, CA)
  Staged readings, Best of the Rest Fest
  March-April, 2003

Celia wears a look like she's just been proposed to by Tom, because she has. She answers with questions of her own, and a mutual critique of the proposal unfolds across the restaurant table taking these two lifelong soulmates far beyond a simple yes or no.

Available for production (1m, 1f, one set). Contact the playwright.

 

 

 

Read the first three pages

Origins

The ending was the original idea, but saying anything more would give the play away. You'll just have to request a copy.

Doug (middle) and the cast: Matthew Dodd and Malia Ogden