The Waiters

The Waiters is a play that explores what happens when three couples attempt to take love off-line. Carter-Winward's play delves into technology's impact on our notions of romance and fidelity, across generations and across technological platforms. This short, three-act play tells three different stories with one common theme: how do we connect? 

In Little Black Facebook, a young woman tries to connect with her boyfriend, but between texts, social media and conflicting expectations, they talk past each other while their phones take center stage.

A shy widower meets a free-spirited woman face-to-face in Mis-matched.com, and they get to see, up close and personal, how anything can look perfect on paper.

Hot Talk explores a question that has divided men and women throughout time: what constitutes infidelity?  A married couple use food to convey their feelings as a husband stings from a one-time dalliance, while a wife is bruised from his many on-line "relationships." 

Set in three different restaurants with the waiter as  alternately the purveyor of wisdom, the naive bumbling fool, the jokester with terrible timing, and ultimately, the omniscient voice that ties everything together, The Waiters is poignant, funny, insightful and extremely relevant in today's world. Whether you are tech-savvy or not, The Waiters explores the difficult terrain of relationships, trust, love and how the age of technology age has irrevocably changed all three, forever. 

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*Print copy does not reflect the script for on-stage performance. See below for stage script, and production information.