Setting: low-end coffee shop, small.
Stage dressing: two round tables, each with two cheap chairs; a coffee bar (black particleboard) and a door frame (black) indicating the back room of the shop.
Characters: silent, surly coffee shop owner (Uri.) Beautiful and aloof woman (Chasmine.) Angry businessman with ex-wife trouble (James.) Comic relief androgynous bag-person with "Hank" the mop head (Limpy.) The characters should be read as written: superficial and without personality or redeemability. When delivering lines, actors should remember the word "snide."
Plot: no discernible plot. James will be angry. Chasmine will be aloof and, eventually, intrigued but untouchable. Uri will pop in and out as the other characters need coffee or have a question. Limpy will ease tensions just in time, but only temporarily. The end of the one-act will leave everyone feeling like nothing happened, life is hopeless and that it must be much more difficult to write plays than one would think.
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