Drama. 3 men, 3 women.
Business titans, mothers and lovers are mixed together with a heavy portion of sexual hunger, which drives this drama from New York to Argentina to Tehran and back. The passions are hot but the hearts are very cold.
Peter and Mary are a wealthy Manhattan couple who have a daughter, Cassie, a professor. She is sexually involved with two men: Richard, who went to college with her father; and Simon, a young man who recently was her student. Richard is a wealthy, powerful, dangerous older man. Simon is a destitute, brash, leftist-radical, reminiscent of the 1960’s, who appears sexually impotent, possibly bisexual, and attracted to abusive, dominant people. Cassie is addicted to the men and the power: Richard’s power over her and her power over Simon. Her difficult life becomes dangerous and deadly when she attempts to shed her addictions.
COLD HEARTS is a present-day, six-character (3M, 3W), two-act drama. It takes place on an open, sparse, unit set with the suggestion of three living spaces: Richard’s living room; Peter and Mary’s dining/living room; and Simon’s apartment bedroom. The play can be presented very well in an intimate space with minimal production values; it can also be a very large production with slides, video and towering scenery.
At its core, COLD HEARTS is about the six characters and what they do. Richard (52), is attractive and ruthless. Peter (55) and his wife, Mary (60), are comfortably wealthy and uncomfortably married. Cassie (30), has tremendous sexual appetites. Rosa (28-32), an attractive prostitute in Argentina, knows how to make money. And Simon (22), who longs to fight for an exploited society, of which he has no understanding, and to which he unknowingly belongs, never had a chance.
COLD HEARTS was previously titled REFLECTIONS