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People Like Us
A dark comedy
for two men and two women
Full Length -- Single interior set
Running time: 90 minutes
Gentrifying renovators confront a mysterious homeless couple that has taken over a room in their loft.
Plot Summary
Brendan and Neil live the charmed life: model girlfriends, gorgeous renovated loft, six-figure incomes. Exit prankster Neil, on an unannounced sabbatical; enter a strange homeless couple who seem to have moved in overnight. Amidst cryptic emails, miniature paintings, violence against sandwiches, and an ill-fated trip to Singapore, the questions begin to arise: how far will Brendan go to drive them away... and whose apartment is it, really?
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Character Breakdown
BRENDAN, twenties, white, fund manager, wound-up, second fiddle to his roommate, best friend and co-worker Neil and
LILLY, twenties, model-actress-singer, Neil’s live-in girlfriend. Cynical, fashionable.
LEN, twenties but seems older, white, filthy, strange.
BEAN, twenties, African-American or Latina, Len’s “friend,” filthy but festive.
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