"Apartment"

Angus, Paul, and Lindsay are not-too-well-off juniors in college attempting to make it by in a cheap apartment in NYC. Angus is a skilled athlete, semi-successful student, and a real lady’s man at that. Indeed, he seems to be living the life, held back only by his various drug addictions which he claims he “can’t” break, and viewed poorly only by those who detest of his severe addiction to sex. One such person is Lindsay, a not too obviously geeky brainiac who has never been involved with a man and was struggling with her questionable sexuality before she became emotionally fond of Angus, who has no idea of her attraction. In turn, Lindsay pays no attention to Paul, who is head over heels for her, though she does not know. Paul is not skilled in much, not sports, not school, and certainly not with his people skills (or lackthereof). Paul has a sort of addiction of his own: theft. Trained to steal all his life by his impoverished, morally crooked family, it is all he knows. He usually makes a clean getaway, but there are those four or five times a year when he’s up for bail in the local jail. Angus and Paul go way back, having come from the same small rural town in New Hampshire, and having been strong friends through all of middle school and high school.
It is spring term; there are less than two months left before the end of the year, they have all now been living together for a good 7 months. They have become good friends, and all aforementioned sexual tensions are firmly established in the respective piners’ minds. The tension is building, however, as both Angus and Lindsay have been offered separate housing arrangements for the next year, effectively splitting the trio up. But suddenly money, grades, sports, and their lonely hearts aren’t the only thing these three need to tend to when a suspicious-looking “friend” of Paul’s named Quincy shows up in a panic at the apartment door one night. Paul takes him in, claiming that he’s harmless, but as time progresses, Lindsay and Angus begin to uncover a frightening truth: Quincey is a suspect in a murder which took place that past summer in Paul and Angus’s home town, a murder with which Paul may also have been involved.

The play takes place completely within the kitchen/living area of the apartment. It begins shortly before Quincey’s arrival, so that the inter-character relationships between the roommates can be somewhat established. Once Quincey arrives, the plot becomes very central to how this affects the relationships of the other three characters and how his presence and predicaments act as a catalyst for said relationships.

Comedy or tragedy? Tragedy

Let me knw what you think.
-OSK

Once again, fuck you, George Sullivan.