Play Proposal

Catalyst: What's up with all these 80 year old billionaires with good looking women?

Concept: I want to write a satirical comedy about these strange relationships, that pays homage to Shakepeares' "A Mid-summer Night's Dream"

Conflict: A older man tries to make a move on a young girl, and the same with an older women on a younger guy.

Character Sketches: An older man who hasn't had much luck with women and is responding to an ad for a relationship. An older women who is recently divorced and used a dating website. A young girl who was forced to go on a date by her concerned mom with her mom's co-worker's son. A young guy who has been set up on a blind date by his friends.

Philosophical World: "Like attracts like" examining gender bias in relationships.

Physical World: Point of climax in date scene when all is revealed about the truth.

Point of Attack: When the characters reveal how they came on the date.

Story Synopsis: These characters are all having trouble with dating and so they are all set up in some sort of way and they are all looking for different things in relationships which come out during the date through their mannerisms. It takes a deeper look into how age does create differences in relationships and sometimes each person belongs best with their own crowd.

Plot: Four different come on a blind date in a restaurant and slowly slowly different comedic events ensure that lead to the a revelation at the climax and a realization by all the characters of a little bit about themselves and what they are looking for a in relationship.

Plot Outline: The whole play takes place in one long extended scene, split into two portions, that will go back and forth between the two mismatched couples. The climax is the revelation portion and then the play concludes with them leaving with their correct and respective blind date partners.