Three women live next door to each other in an inner-city apartment block. They all live alone and depend on an outside, unavailable person for intimacy. The women never really develop relationships with each other until the power in the building fails and an electrician called FRED is sent to fix it. As he works on the sockets and fixtures, he counsels each woman and formulates a plan to fix their lives. By Act Two FRED’s plan is in motion. Rowan has ended his relationship with MAUREEN who takes an overdose, pushing EMMA and ALISON together to help her. As they coax MAUREEN back to life, they get to know each other, and ALISON decides to use some of her inheritance from her brother, Darryl, to fund an Art Exhibition for EMMA. She enlists MAUREEN’s help in finding a suitable gallery and when the date is set MAUREEN contacts Ruby and invites her. Ruby comes to the exhibition along with Cheryl, Dennis Cooper and MAUREEN’s son, Trent but these characters are offstage and unseen as the lights go down.
Apartment 1 – MAUREEN PARMIGER glamorous middle-aged widow who has had a lover called Rowan for fifteen years. He promises he will leave his severely depressed wife, Dagmar, when she can cope. But when Dagmar finally suicides Rowan ends their relationship. Vocal range Mezzo-soprano.
Apartment 2 – EMMA PAULY elderly artist in the first stages of Alzheimer’s. Before she loses her mind completely, she wants to tell her estranged daughter, Ruby that she loves her. She would also like to paint her Masterpiece. Vocal range Contralto.
Apartment 3 – ALISON CHURCH twenty-something woman who talks to her friend Cheryl on the phone every day and fantasizes about the gorgeous Dennis Cooper, a guy she met at the cemetery, but her closest bond is with her dead brother, Darryl. Vocal Range Soprano.
FRED - an electrician or possibly an angel. Vocal range Bari-Tenor or Rock Tenor.
This show usesfully orchestrated backing tracks.