Doctor: Middle-aged; white; unmarried; brown hair–receding; blue eyes; matter-of-fact; unsympathetic; uninterested; uninspired
Husband: Loving; compassionate; family-oriented; over-emotional; light brown hair; dark-chocolate eyes; rough hands-carpenter/woodworker; strong (physically)
Wife: Petite; calm; quiet; relatively unemotional but deeply caring; quietness often mistaken for passivity; deep thinker; red-headed; green eyes
Set: "Cut in half" – on stage left is the doctor's waiting room: has holographic TV screen on back wall and tablets built into chairs (chairs are angled on stage left); reception desk is on stage right (no one behind it); on the other half of the set is the patient room: has one chair on stage right by hovering examination table (also to stage right); a holographic screen is on stage left wall; a short counter on back wall with sink
*All walls, chairs, floors, counters, etc. are white/stark–no color besides the blue-hued holograms*
*There is a door connecting the two rooms*
YOU ARE READING
Hopeless
General FictionThis is a play. It is about a pregnant wife and her husband. Emotion dominates this story. Some things seem hopeless-that's when you know you've done something right.
