The Bed - A New Play by Nikos Vlachos

synopsis

The Bed
by Nikos Vlachos

directed by Sandra Zielinski

with
Andy Luther as Joe Isaia
Madelon Guinazzo as Sara Isaia
and
William Jason Raynovich on Cello

THE TIME
Early 1980s, on Joe and Sara's wedding day, continuing to 2045,

THE PLACE
All the scenes take place in a bedroom.

Act One
Scene One   Early 1980s, Evening, Greenwich Village apartment.
Scene Two   Three years later, 2:00 A.M.
Scene Three   Late 1990s, Brooklyn Heights, Late Evening.

(The performance will have one ten min. intermission)

Act Two
Scene One   Thirty hours later, 5 A.M.
Scene Two   2020, Late afternoon.
Scene Three    2045, Manhattan. Late evening.

The Bed is a tribute to strength, commitment, and undying love. Set in New York in the early 1980s, this tender story opens on the wedding night of Joe and Sara Isaia. While Sara eagerly anticipates an extravagant wedding gift from her new husband, Joe presents her instead with a refurbished three-quarter sized bed. Although a disappointment at first, it is ultimately the bed that remains the one constant in Joe's and Sara's life.

HISTORY

THE BED was first produced on January 6, 2006 in San Juan Capistrano, California at the Camino Real Playhouse. The play won First Prize in the American Theatre Co-op 2003 Full Length Playwriting Contest, Second Prize for the 2006 Midwestern Association of Community Playhouses Full Length Play Competition, and was a finalist in Another Chicago Theatre Company 2004 Last Play Standing Competition.