A laugh-out-loud comedy with brains...and a huge, honeyed heart. Set in two adjoining bedrooms on a modern Canadian farm, the play tackles sex, love, science, family and the artificial insemination of turkeys.
Sarah, a turkey farmer, has just left her husband and moved back home to live with her mother Gail. Despite the fact that she's a divorcee of twenty years herself, Gail isn't exactly providing the sympathy Sarah needs. Gail is a beekeeper, and she has other things to worry about - like why her honeybees are dropping dead.
Then there’s Earl: Gail’s neighbour, farm tenant, and the ex-husband of Gail’s ex-husband’s new wife. In these past twenty years, he’s been keeping himself mighty busy with the ladies, but Gail has just never really got back on that horse…so to speak. And finally, there’s Ben: an athletic 23-year-old master’s student, here to study the collapsing bee colonies. Secretly still a virgin, he’s about to get a big lesson in pollination…if you know what we mean.
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Setting:
The upstairs of a farmhouse. We can see two bedrooms and a hallway.
One bedroom is fully furnished. The décor is not overly frilly, but something about it tells us this
is a woman’s exclusive domain. In this room, there is a bed, maybe a dresser; there’s a closet or
a wardrobe; there is a window, the screen of which has been taken out and is leaning against
the wall; there are two nightstands on top of which there is a cordless phone and a clock radio.
There is a bathrobe hanging on a hook on the inside of the door. This is Gail’s room.
The other room is mostly empty. There is a shelf displaying a few remnants of the person who
last inhabited this space—trophies, books, CDs, a small lamp, a stuffed animal; there’s also an
exercise ball and several boxes full of honey and mead in the middle of the room. There is also
a window in this room. Most notably, there is no bed. This used to be Sarah’s room.
Connecting these two rooms is the upstairs hall or landing. There is a door to a washroom and a
door to another bedroom, neither of which we can see into. The only true entrance and exit is
down the stairs. Maybe we can see the top couple of steps.
This is likely a century home—but not in the way that it’s been lovingly preserved or restored—
just in the way that it’s been here a long time. To help indicate that we’re upstairs, there might be
some sloped ceilings, or some suggestion of the roof above, or the sky outside. !
Cast
SARAH, a turkey farmer, 38
GAIL, a beekeeper, 62
EARL, a cash cropper, 63
BEN, a student of entomology, 23