FAIR FIGHT is a comedic dance, theater, and musical epic in two parts.
With a cast of 15, the plot of PART 1 revolves around an awards ceremony celebrating excellence in an unspecified industry fraught with competition and an intense need for recognition. The audience is introduced to a group of friends/colleagues in their various apartments as they dress for the evening. The neurotic dynamics of their personal relationships are played out as they reveal their nervousness and insecurities about the impending results of the evening ahead. When they arrive at the awards ceremony, the piece evolves into a dance/movement satire on party behavior and social mores, and spirals into an homage to West Side Story. As the awards are announced, the ceremony devolves into a riot where unhealthy binge drinking facilitates an explosion of deep-seated resentments and bitterness. Ironically, a moment of kindness and clarity redeems the group as one-character channels Neil Diamond and a spell of love and forgiveness is cast upon them all.
PART 2 takes place a few years later on New Year's Eve. As everyone prepares for the evening’s festivities we get to see how Fate has cruelly dealt with each character’s individual destiny. Part 2, which is in an earlier stage development, explores the deeper themes of friendship, grief and basic human kindness in the context of a compulsively self-absorbed and goal-oriented world and reveals our dependency on our own unique communities.
