About the Play:

Three Changes has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Male Monologues and Male/Male Scenes.

Three Changes is a full-length dark comedy by Nicky Silver. A comfortably married, Upper West Side couple get an unexpected visit from the man's wayward brother, a Hollywood producer. What at first seems a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed as something more ominous. He may have had success in Hollywood, but human connection is all that matters, and he intends to make connections – no matter who pays the price.

Three Changes is a funny and darkly suspenseful look at the joy of family, and how far we'll go to get it. Nate and Laurel are a seemingly happy couple living on New York's Upper West Side, busy, content and comfortable – until the surprising arrival of Hal, Nate's long-lost brother. A once-successful television writer, Hal is just out of rehab. He's out of cash and alone in the world. But what seems to be a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed to be something much more ominous. As he attempts to write his first novel, Hal insidiously usurps Nate's place in the home. He unearths long-buried feelings in Laurel and adds to the household by bringing in a young man, a runaway, who seems to somehow complete the family. A family that ultimately has no place for Nate. And as the play builds to its climax, we understand that these two men, these brothers who have tried to find a way to love each other, are locked in a battle that will cost one of them their life.

Three Changes premiered in 2008 at the Mainstage Theater of the Playwrights Horizons complex off-Broadway in New York City. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has been performed in regional and college theatre productions.

Cast: 3 female, 3 male

What people say:

"A born playwright, Nicky Silver is a creator of language that unscrolls across the stage like luminous skywriting. His instinctive theatrical gracefulness is still in evidence in Three Changes, [which] considers the hunger for a cohesive family in a fragmented world." — NY Times

"Silver's play leaves lots to discuss on the way home… He's joining Lillian Hellman, Tracy Letts, Edward Albee and Horton Foote in prying the truth loose from its hiding places in family dramas." — DCTheatreScene.com

About the Playwright:

Nicky Silver is an award-winning American playwright. He exploded onto the American theatre scene in October of 1993, with the off-Broadway opening of his play Pterodactyls (Oppenheimer Award, Kesselring Award, Drama Desk nomination, Outer Critic's Circle nomination). His plays have been produced extensively in New York City as well as across Europe and as far away as South Korea.