Meaningless

Lodestar Quarterly

Issue 8 • Winter 2003 • Drama

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

Characters

TED
The protagonist

LINDA
Ted's best friend

The actress playing Linda also plays one of the
GUYS AT THE BAR

KETEL ONE
Linda's girlfriend

The actress playing Ketel One also plays:
BOOFIE - a human resources professional
BRUCE - a no-nonsense bar man
and one of the GUYS AT THE BAR

JAN
Ted's college flame

The actor playing Jan also plays:
VOICE 1 - a trick
GORGEOUS GUY - a hunk
and RON - an Internet chat room disaster

Time

sometime between 1998 and 2000

Setting

San Francisco

Production Note

Abundant use of underscoring narrations and scenes with music is highly recommended.

Next Page: Act , The Darkness (page 2 of 8 pages)

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Table of Contents: Meaningless

Peter Nachtrieb is a San Francisco Bay Area-based playwright, actor, and director. His solo show The Amorphous Blob, which he wrote and performed, was seen at San Francisco's Venue 9 in 1997 and at the Seattle Fringe Festival in 1998. His short play, Self Help, received the 2000 Emerging Playwright Award from Playground Theater Company in San Francisco. He is a frequent sketch comedy writer for the very popular San Francisco performance group Killing My Lobster. He has written two one-act plays, Thread and Multiplex. Meaningless his first full-length play.

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