"Then we segue into meeting Waverly (Emily Eisele), a young advertising exec, nervously bouncing around her Minneapolis apartment. Her shy, diffident date, Andrew (Ben Tissell) arrives, holding a book and a bottle of wine. In the scene's background, ongoing newscasts play unceasingly. Distracted, Waverly is phoning her mother and not receiving a response-both are frightened for family living in Manhattan."
"An apartment building neighbor named Ron (Rolland Walsh) enters and begins to monopolize conversation. A foil to the painfully self-aware Andrew, Ron expounds unselfconsciously-like a prototype for what we would eventually dub mansplaining. Finally, Nancy (Rose Proctor), who is involved with Ron, joins them all for pizza, followed by a drinking game. The game makes up much of the second act and provides a vehicle for the four to discuss free will with an ironic approximation Joyce Carol Oates."
At the opening, a stage manager instructs an audience member to flip a coin, with certain events decided by the toss and sounds marking forks in possibility. Waverly, a young advertising executive, awaits a shy date, Andrew, in her Minneapolis apartment while unceasing newscasts and worry for family in Manhattan intrude. Neighbor Ron monopolizes conversation and exemplifies unselfconscious mansplaining; his partner Nancy joins for pizza and a drinking game. The drinking game occupies much of the second act and becomes a vehicle for the four characters to debate free will and the perception of inevitability, invoking Joyce Carol Oates.
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