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Jonathan Caren

Published by Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

"A play for the 21st century with some subtle gaffes at society's perpetual attachment to cell phones, lap tops, social media, and Googling ... brilliantly blends funny and frightening with serious topical concerns" ~LASplash.com

Lilly and Steven are smart, talented, and charming

Their new neighbor is not

After moving into a new apartment, they meet the man they now share a wall with ...

Mark Manners, an aspiring fiction writer and longtime tenant of the building

Lilly and Steven proceed to Google-stalk Mark and have a field day mocking his website

Only to realize the walls are very thin

Did he hear everything they said about him?

When they try to resolve the newfound tension, it escalates in ways none of them could ever predict

REVIEWS

"Caren keeps surprises and red herrings in constant churn while having a high time with a symbolic pair of fish in a bowl" ~ Los Angeles Times

"The characters in Jonathan Caren's contemporary comedy use Facebook and the internet to glean information about others, but while technology plays a pivotal role here, the playwright's primary concern is ethics: specifically, how we treat the misfits among us - those who may not conform to conventional standards of beauty and behavior" ~ LA Weekly

"Seductively suspenseful a provocative psychological cat-and-mouse game with some neat Hitchcockian touches" ~ StageSceneLA.com

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