Things That Never Were

3-4w, 25+

As Doris muses about her selective memory, she reminisces about her last birthday and the conversations she had with her two sisters about a surprise gift, refining her skewed memories of the conversations as she does. Three memory figures (Doris and her sisters Esther and Bobbi) act out the memories as they alter. This breezy comedy touches on family dynamics with humor, breaking the fourth wall at the very end to reinforce its point about the malleability of memory.

Production requirements are simple. No props or set are required, and lighting and/or stage position can easily distinguish between real-time Doris and the memory figures. The roles of Doris and Memory Doris can be split, or can be played by the same woman in a tour-de-force performance.