Couples, by Rich Orloff, at the Workshop's Jewel Box Theater

Workshop Theater Company presents Couples, an evening of eight short two-character comedies and dramas about love and desire by Rich Orloff, at the Workshop's Jewel Box Theater from 9 - 19 May 2007.

Couples:

• Matterhorn: waiting in line at Disneyland, a husband and wife bicker until the husband comes up with a novel solution to their marital woes.
• Class Dismissed: a college professor becomes involved in a scandal and is forced to leave campus, after one of his students arrives in his office with a provocative question.
  
• Lion Tamer: a woman selling her home gives a man a tour, but the conversation soon shifts from 'for sale' to foreplay.
• Afternoon Sun: when a man and a woman meet in a hotel room for a tryst, the woman gets her needs met not by the man but from a surprising source.
• Heart Of The Fire: tells the story of a waitress in an East Village bar who gets an unwanted visit from a man she knows, with a request she'd rather not hear.
• Oh Happy Day: two men in a long-term relationship unwind at home after work. One is political and the other has a surprise present for him.
• Invisible Woman: a nuanced look into the multilayered thoughts and emotions of a shy women when her self-satisfied boyfriend asks, 'How are you?'
• Right Sensation: an anxious man and eager woman who have met at a bar end up in her apartment, both hoping for sex but ending up with something more.