One Act Auditions – “Chapter Two”

Taken from Neil Simon’s Chapter 2, two scenes will be presented as part of an OSLT evening of one-act plays. While the full work explores the complicated drama and comedy of love and sexual attraction the second time around, these two scenes portray the giddy, slightly apprehensive aspect of first acquaintance. George, a recently bereaved man in his early forties, inadvertently contacts Jennie, the early-thirties divorcée George’s brother is trying to set him up with. Instantly intrigued with each other, the scenes depict the flirty initial telephone call and first meeting that begins their recklessly passionate, then troubled, romance.