Derek Sikkema
A man or woman wakes up one morning to find that his or her society thinks that chairs are staging a revolution in this absurdist comedy about the arbitrary meanings we assign to the world around us.
“Chairs” was written as part of “the New Playwrights’ Festival” taught by Professor Brian Thorstenson, spring 2018. Stage reading on June 5, 2018 in the Santa Clara University Black Box theater. Staged Reading. Directed by Freya Helton.
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Alex thought that he was living a normal suburban life with his husband (or wife) Sam. They had sent their child Pat off to college, though not without some turbulent disagreement. Alex spends most of his time watching documentaries in the den and chatting with his professor friends. Little does he know that a wild series of misinterpretations and coincidences have left him unaware that the society around him believes that chairs are staging an uprising. As he emerges one morning and comes to this realization, he decides to march onto the battlefield in the name of objective reality, desperately trying to point out to everyone around him that the only violent things in this situation are the people themselves.
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