Roast Beef And The Rare Kiss

Cast: Needed:  2 women, 2 men: ALAN, PAULA, DEE, TIM (all close in age, mid  to late 20's or early to late 30's).

Setting: a living room sofa big enough for four adults.

Length: 10 pages, lasting approximately 10 minutes.

The gist: The perfect Friday evening--a double date between best friends, a delicious home-cooked meal, and a romantic film with popcorn on its way. The only thing more perfect is the kiss. A surprise kiss that comes out of no where. The kind of kiss one will always remember. That rare kiss that can never be mentioned or repeated ever again. A romantic comedy.

Awards: Nominee for Outstanding Original Short Script for the 2005 New York IT Awards (celebrating Off-Off-Broadway). Finalist for 2005 National Ten-Minute Play Contest and Heideman Award at the Actors' Theatre of Louisville.

Press:  David Pumo: (theater critic for nytheatre.com) "The short and very amusing Roast Beef and the Rare Kiss by Gregory Fletcher opens Series C [for EATfest-- Spring 2005], the perennial short plays festival of new works by up-and-coming authors, sponsored by Off-Off Broadway's Emerging Artists Theatre. The play begins with the kiss. We then realize that the two people kissing are not a couple, but rather each is part of another couple, and the two couples are spending an evening together at one of their homes. The rest of the play is nervous choreography as the two who kissed try to deal with what they have just done, while their partners bounce in and out of the room, cleaning up after dinner and making popcorn for the movie they rented. There's a delightful and clever twist at the end."

Published: Translated into Dutch, Frisian, and Flemish, and published and licensed for the Netherlands and Belgium by Anco Entertainment.