Sick

David needs to get laid, Gary could use a drink, and Tim would like you to take your top off. Carla craves cocaine, Jeannie’s got God, and Pamela keeps digging herself deeper into the funny and frightening world of hypochondria. But when one of their own gets sick for real, they’re all going to have to face their greatest fears and grow up.

NOMINEE, LA Weekly Award, Outstanding Playwriting

Play Details

Sick is a 90-minute play with no intermission.

Cast: 3 female, 3 male, 1 child

Genre: comedic drama

Keywords: hypochondria, mothers, leukemia, sex

Character Breakdown

PAMELA, a twenty-eight-year-old woman.

DAVID, her husband.

MICHAEL, their ten-year-old son.

BROWN, his doctor. Handsome, charming.

GARY, Pamela’s brother.

CARLA, his wife.

JEANNIE, an addict, a sales clerk.