The month of June at the First Avenue Playhouse
123 First Avenue
Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716
"Roommates"
by Joe Simonelli
Frank Avino is a divorced 40-something accountant with dreams of becoming a best selling author. A pretty smooth operator when it comes to the dating game, Frank's only problem seems to be how to keep his overbearing mother back in Brooklyn and out of his small suburban New Jersey apartment.
The serenity is broken when a police officer brings Frank's best friend Tom over to the tiny apartment. Tom, it seems, has been thrown out of the house of his live in girlfriend due to a domestic squabble. The "put open" Frank agrees to let Tom stay a few nights until he can find his own place. However as the days turn into weeks Frank is a little concerned that Tom is getting too comfortable.
Add in a tough downstairs landlord, Franks' latest flame and a surprise visit by Frank's mother and things start to get hilarious. When Frank learns, that Tom has started to date his older sister he has had enough and hatches a plan to get rid of him without hurting his feelings.
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