Wakey, Wakey (TCG Edition). Will Eno

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       WAKEY, WAKEY

      BOOKS BY WILL ENO

      AVAILABLE FROM TCG

       The Flu Season and Other Plays

      Also includes:

       Intermission

       Tragedy: a tragedy

       Gnit

       Middletown

       The Open House

       The Realistic Joneses

       Thom Pain (based on nothing)

       Title and Deed/Oh, the Humanity and other good intentions

       Wakey, Wakey

      WAKEY, WAKEY

       Will Eno

      THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP

      NEW YORK

      2019

      Wakey, Wakey is copyright © 2017 by Will Eno

      Wakey, Wakey is published by Theatre Communications Group, Inc., 520 Eighth Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10018-4156

      Wakey, Wakey is published by arrangement with Oberon Books, Ltd. 521 Caledonia Road, London, N7 9RH

      All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in newspaper, magazine, radio or television reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that this material, being fully protected under the1pr emphasis is placed on the question of readings and all uses of this book by educational institutions, permission for which must be secured from the author’s representative: Rachel Viola, United Talent Agency, 888 Seventh Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10106, [email protected].

      The publication of Wakey, Wakey by Will Eno, through TCG’s Book Program, is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

      TCG books are exclusively distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress

      ISBN 978-1-55936-578-9 (trade paper)

      ISBN 978-1-55936-893-3 (ebook)

      Cover image by Joyce O’Connor/Radiant1

      First TCG Edition, February 2019

       In regular and loving memory of Ada Louise Huxtable, Jim Houghton, and Edward Albee

      CHARACTERS

      GUY

      male, 40s-60s, youthful looking but might suddenly look gaunt or unwell, in the wrong (right) lighting.

      LISA

      female, late 30s-50s. A warm and caring person, but not inclined toward any kind of sentimentality. Loving, and, matter-of-fact, in equal amounts.

      There are some additional production notes at the end of the play.

      STAGE SETTING

      mainly empty except for a number of taped-up moving boxes, and a small pile of clothes. Other signs of someone packing up and moving. A wall with wainscoting or a chair rail, some specific-enough detail to suggest a particular room – maybe the common room of a hospital (probably a building from the early 1900s up to the 1950s or so). A practical electrical outlet in the wall and a dimmer switch, both in the ordinary places. A phone charger is plugged into the outlet. A doorway, somewhere off to the side and back, either practical or a free-standing theatrical door, perhaps with plants or small shrubs on either side of it. A calendar with all the actual days up to today’s performance date X-ed out. The calendar is hung low enough so that someone in a wheelchair could write in it. Some other ordinary things may appear in the set.

      Wakey, Wakey received its world premiere on February 27, 2017 at Signature Theatre (Paige Evans, Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director;Jim Houghton, Founder) in New York City. It was directed by Will Eno, the set design was by Christine Jones, the costume design was by Michael Krass, the lighting design was by David Lander, the sound design was by Nevin Steinberg, the projections design was by Peter Nigrini; the production stage manager was David H. Lurie. The cast was:

      GUY Michael Emerson

      LISA January LaVoy