Engagement Rules
by Rich Orloff
Cast: 2 M, 2 W
ENGAGEMENT RULES concerns two couples, one about to get married and one married over fifty years, who help each other as they confront questions of love, mortality and the nature of the soul.
It’s mostly a comedy.
A spontaneous and soulfully satisfying sexual experience for the young couple has ramifications for all four characters: The young couple, who are deeply in love and just got engaged, must now deal with an unplanned pregnancy. The more they consider how to proceed, the deeper their differences become, a problem which becomes larger than any answers either can imagine.
Meanwhile, when the young man confides to the older man how moving his sex life is, the older man begins to worry that his sex life has always been lacking, and he pressures his wife to experiment. His wife, who has resumed going to church after many years away, responds to her fervently non-religious husband with an ultimatum: She'll experiment with him sexually in any way he wants – if he agrees to go to church with her.
With humor and compassion, ENGAGEMENT RULES gives two couples crises of incompatibility, to see how and if good people who love each other can surmount the seemingly insurmountable.
After readings and workshops around the country, ENGAGEMENT RULES will premiere at Detroit Repertory Theatre in December 2012.
