7 Stories

7 Stories
Written by	Morris Panych
Characters	Man, Charlotte, Rodney, Jennifer, Leonard, Marshall, Rachel, Percy, Michael, Joan, Al, Lillian, Nurse Wilson, The four window people
Date premiered	1989
Place premiered	Vancouver
Original language	English
Subject	A man contemplates suicide on a seventh-story building ledge.
Genre	Comedy
Setting	an apartment window ledge

7 Stories is a play created by Canadian playwright Morris Panych.

The protagonist (a well dressed man) is standing on the ledge on the seventh story of a tall building, contemplating leaping to his death. He is interrupted by the colorful residents of the seventh story who are too caught up in their own lives to notice the man or question his being on the ledge of the building. The persons who interact with the man do so by opening or appearing at one or more of seven windows on the seventh storey. For the majority of the play, the people talking with the protagonist have most of the dialogue. The man hasn't much dialogue until near the end, when he explains that his daily routine was thrown off when he woke up and lost track of what day it was.

The play has a set that is quite confined for actors to work with. Actors must try and work with a set in which they must play their parts in a window.

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