15 Seconds

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Drama. Brimming with dark and brittle humor, 15 SECONDS is a play about a young female copy writer, her pro-sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X welfare-bum, and his brother, handicapped by cerebral palsy. These four characters are constantly making choices about reality and illusion; imagination and fantasy; the hale and the handicapped -- about the way things are and the way they might be. The play's characters each exist in their worlds utterly without context, objectified to the point where their fantasies about who they might have been are all that define them to themselves, and who they superficially appear to be is all that defines them to each other. 15 SECONDS does something completely unexpected with this material -- chance reigns supreme in a world where 15 seconds of inattention or error can irrevocably determine the shape of lives, and the audience is denied a smug superiority.