AMPERSAND

(3 actors)

Summary

Things aren’t working out for Kate and Marlowe. He’s an unemployed whiner, and despite her best efforts to stay faithful, Kate just couldn’t help cloning him. Twice. Now she’s got a guilty conscience, plus three different versions of her husband running around a Zurich hotel.

Full blast farce…twisted, yet hilarious…

—Michigan Live

Winner of the Reva Shiner Comedy Award from Bloomington Playwrights Project.


From the script:

Rafe takes her hands.

RAFE
I dream of you.  Day and night.  I see you superimposed on the world.  On the endless parade of suitcases and coat hangers and bed sheets.

KATE
Stop.

RAFE
You ran from the heat.  Because it was igniting you, Kate.

KATE
I needed time.  To think.

RAFE
It was an inferno, what we had.  It scorched my memories.  That fire is crackling in your secret spaces.   Heating the crinkled edges of the moist pages of your heart.

KATE Wavering.
Please.  Don’t do that.

RAFE
I have words, Kate.  I have words.