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Punch Up

Punch Up

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Paperback : 9781770917422, 80 pages, February 2017
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781770917446, 80 pages, February 2017
Ebook (PDF) : 9781770917439, 80 pages, February 2017

Description

Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy, leading a simple life while working at a bread factory. Then he stumbles upon Brenda, a sad young woman who’s about to end her life. Convinced he’s fallen in love, Duncan strikes up a desperate deal: if he can get her to laugh, she'll give life another shot, but if she doesn’t even giggle, he'll help her go through with her plan. There’s just one catch: Duncan isn’t funny. At all. So he borrows Pat, his second-favourite comedian, to help him come up with the perfect routine. But Pat is having a hard time mustering his sense of humour after a bad break-up, and the last thing he wants to do is teach a lonely loser the difference between knock-knock jokes and schadenfreude while chained to a typewriter. A tragicomedy of three misfits, Punch Up navigates a hostage situation and a life-or-death comedy lesson to show just how far we’ll go for a laugh.

Reviews

“Sandler's knack for realistic dialogue makes this story not only feasible, but gleefully relatable. ” —Lauren Gillett, Theatromania

“The writing needed no ‘punching up’ at all; I want some of what Kat Sandler’s been drinking. ” —Crystal Wood, Mooney on Theatre