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Lunch Bunch

  • Adrian Einspanier
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 3M, 5F
  • ISBN: 9780573711244

Seven public defenders search for meaning, belonging, and something resembling order through their hurried quest for the perfect lunch – while battling ACS, inequality, burnout, and a heaping helping of existential dread.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre
Dragon Fruit! Black Beluga Lentils! Perfectly Soft-Boiled Eggs! Amidst the distinct fear/feeling that the world is, always has been, always will be going to sh*t, seven public defenders seek meaning, belonging, and some semblance of order via their frenzied quest for the perfect lunch (bunch).
REVIEWS:

"Idiosyncratic, nonrealistic, gently experimental... but also charming and smart and kindly."

The New York Times

"Excellent workplace comedy... rattling, lickety-split dialogue... Lunch Bunch is at once a cry for help and a joyful, fizzy comedy of manners; it celebrates both getting a father limited visitation rights and the value of a good sandwich."

TimeOut New York

"Stylish... a dramatic Bento box full of savory dialogue and sour insights, with an appropriately sweet dessert."

TheaterMania

"A workplace comedy with a twist, a culinary entertainment served with piquant hints of frustration and sadness... its humor lands all the more effectively for being placed against a background of hard truths."

Lighting & Sound America

Premiere Production: Lunch Bunch premiered at Clubbed Thumb in New York City on May 17, 2019. Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad, the production featured Eliza Bent, Ugo Chukwu, Irene Sofia Lucio, Keilly McQuail, Nana Mensah, Jon Norman Schneider and Julia Sirna-Frest. The play returned to NYC on March 15, 2023 at NYC Play Company. Again directed by Ahmadinejad, the production featured returning actors Chukwu and Sirna-Frest, along with Janice Amaya, Tala Ashe, David Greenspan, Louisa Jacobson, Francis Mateo and Jo Mei.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Roles for Multicultural Casting
  • Casting Notes: Character’s ages, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, physical shapes/sizes/abilities are mostly unspecified, and in development we have found various/multiple compelling maps/versions. Names, pronouns, references might change accordingly – or not. As long it’s *thoughtful* to the story it’s telling. That said, quite practically, this play draws inspiration from a public defender office in the Bronx. There should be more women and trans people than cis men. Racial diversity is a must.

  • TUTTLE
    JACOB
    HANNAH
    GREG
    TAL
    MITRA
    NICOLE
    DAVID

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