Analysis Of Coffee Talk

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Title: Coffee Talk

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Nicole and Daina are life long friends. As they go through life and the scenery around them changes, one scene remains the same; the small town coffee shop where they always meet to talk and catch up. On one such occasion, both girls are 24 and have all sorts of questions about their future, dreams from their past, and problems with their present. Nicole is questioning if she should stay with her job, if she will have a future with someone, and what God is doing in the midst of it all. Their waitress and the coffee shop 's long time employee, Mrs. Joan Calla, serve the two 24-year-old girls at a table stage center. Ms. Calla also entertains other customers. At the table stage right, she goes back …show more content…

The point of attack in which our story begins is when Nicole and Daina are 24. Nicole has just come home from a long hard first year of teaching math in a rough intercity school district. To put it lightly, life has not turned out how she thought it would. Daina just finished her graduate degree in criminal justice and is applying for social work positions. The inciting incident occurs right at the beginning when Daina asks Nicole how she has been. From her response, the audience can tell there is a lot of tension and stress in her current living situation. Both girls are single, do not know where they will be living next year, and are struggling to see how their current situations fit into their childhood dreams. Ms. Calla, their waitress, starts to reminisce about the time they were just little kids. Then in walk 9-year-old Nicole and Daina from the past from stage right. They are coming to the coffee shop by themselves for the first time. Their heads are full of ideas of what they will be when they grow up, where they will live, and all they will do. As Ms. Calla serves both her costumers in the past and present, in walk her costumers from the future, stage left. Nicole and Daina from the future are 35 and reveal Nicole is teaching math at a different school and is married with 2 kids. Daina is pregnant with her third child and took a leave of absence from the workforce. Stressed with the demands

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