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No Time 2004 · 1020 Bennett Entertainment Writer: Laurence Klavan Director: Alfred Cooney Director of Photography: Ian McGlocklin Sinclair Production Designer: Tamar Barnoon Log Line Laurence Klavan's brilliantly inventive play, No Time, surrealistically compresses the entire life of a yuppie lawyer into one afternoon as every life-changing event thinkable rushes past him in rapid-fire succession forcing him to realize his own mortality. Synopsis Randolph Hackmeat, fresh out of law school, is already a partner in his father's law firm. He is also about to be married to the sexy Susan; he is buying a twelve-bedroom house; and one by one his partners begin to die off—moving him up a step each time. But, as we learn in a series of brief and very funny vignettes, there are problems, too. His wife leaves him (and then comes back); his house burns down (he buys another); and his brother (the jealous one) overdoses on pool table cleaner. As the pace of the play quickens, Randy is besieged by all manner of intruders, from a psychiatrist to a crooked investment counselor, not to mention a curvaceous employee who seduces, and then blackmails, him. But the mad whirl suddenly stops when his doctor advises Randy (as he is looking over his retirement options) that he has terminal cancer—leaving his widow to weep—and then smile—at the vagaries of this odd thing called life. |
