Lost Love

A Global Warming Tragic Comedy

 

by Peter Papadopoulos

Read entire Lost Love script here.

 

Synopsis

Mitzy, a waterlogged, wedding-day bride, is stranded on a mountaintop with Tito, her streetwise, zenwise parking valet. The wedding has been overrun by floodwaters and the rest of the guests have disappeared in the sudden disaster. Tito and Mitzy attempt to overcome their personal and socioeconomic differences, deal with the loss of loved ones, and look for a way out of their dire circumstances.

Several states away Barb comes home from work to find that her firebrand partner, Jan, has sold off the entire contents of their house and filled it with yard plants. Jan, distraught that Barb has cheated on her, is seeking a new, primitive connection to herself, her partner, and the world by removing the clutter of material goods from their life.

Jan's ascetic goal is being spurred on by the global warming documentary she has been watching on TV, and the increasingly frequent bedroom visits by its narrator, the Brooding French Art Film Guy.

Barb announces that even though she knows what she did was wrong, there is nothing more she can do to help the situation, and so she is leaving. Her pronouncement, however, is interrupted by the helicopter arrival of Mitzy and Tito. Jan, in a drunken state of grief, pledged that she would take in these survivors. Barb decides to stay and help the evacuees cope in the now empty house, and she orders everyone pizza for dinner.

(All Photos Brad Dahlgaard)

A great storm is brewing outside. When the one-armed Pizza Boy finally makes his way through torrential rain and washed out roads to their doorstep in the middle of the night, these four lost souls are awakened from bed to once again collide with the grim reality of this world teetering on the brink.

 

"A smart, silly gem."

- TimeOut Chicago

"The best cabin-fever housewife since
Tony Kushner's Harper Pitt."

- Chicago Maroon

"Damned if Peter Papadopoulos hasn't woven together wildly disparate but topical threads in Lost Love that somehow reflect the information-loaded emotional breakdown that typifies our historical moment."

- Minneapolis City Pages

"Everything that your Jane Eyre at the Guthrie is not."

- Minnesota Daily

 

*2007 Hypatia Theatre New Play Symposium

*2007 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference (finalist)

*2007 Kitchen Dog Theater New Works Festival (finalist)

*2007 Northen Kentucky YES New Play Festival (finalist)

*2007 Bloody Unicorn Theatre Queer Women's Play Contest (finalist)

 

Read entire Lost Love script for free here.    

Visit LAST LOVE, the prequel to LOST LOVE.

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