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Sophie and Karl are persuaded to go on a blind date by mutual friends.  What have they to lose?   A compelling and intense drama about looking for love. 

Sophie and Karl are persuaded to go on a blind date by mutual friends and long-term couple Helen and Dave.  Sophie, a pretty, sexually confident thirty-year-old, is looking for something more permanent than her usual transient relationships.  Karl, a good-looking thirtysomething, agrees because he thinks Helen secretly fancies him and this is her way of checking him out.  The minute they clap their eyes on each other they like what they see.  The date goes really well with Sophie agreeing to go back to Karl’s for a coffee and chat.  Each recounts a radically different version of what happens next.  

Creative team

Playwright and director: Colette Cullen

Sound designer & engineer: Gabriel Clausen

Cast

Sophie: Charlene Gleeson

Karl: Michael O’Kelly


Playwright's Biography

Colette is a Dublin-based Irish playwright and director.  Her work aims to provoke, illuminate and generate empathy using humour, wit, warmth, and humanity.  Her latest play WHEN RACHEL MET FIONA premieres in London on September 28th for a one-week run having had a rehearsed reading in Dublin in December 2020.  The sequel HEAVEN will also have a rehearsed reading during the London run.  Her audio play BLIND DATE is being produced by Nearfm Dublin in the autumn.  Her monologue play EVERYONE’S SORRY has its stage debut in Stage Left’s Masterpiece Monologues in October digital versions having been produced in the US by The Drawing Board NYC and The Lava Centre Greenfield MA and in the UK by Aktualise Theatre, Slackline Theatre, and The Showface Festival.  She co-wrote the award-winning podcast drama series DEEP SHADOWS for Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Chicago.  She also wrote one of the monologues for the award-winning 25/The Decriminalisation Monologues.  Her play FAMILY TREE was long-listed for UK Papatango's 2019 New Writing Prize. Her plays have been performed in London and Dublin.

Writer’s note
I’m a founder member of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and worked as a volunteer counselor there for a number of years so unfortunately date rape is a subject I’m all too familiar with.  A few years back a male friend who was working in a bar overheard a good-looking guy boasting about a sexual conquest he’d had the night before.  My friend was really disgusted by what he overheard and how the man described the encounter particularly his description of the woman.  BEEN THERE DONE THAT is my imagining o

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Show Credits
Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller
Producer: Jack Burmeister
Music: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.com
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