Interrupted Lecture Preperation

Two players. Man and a woman in an apartment... constant everyday chaos (entering and exiting the stage, things difficult to start, always interrupted, huge pot of potatoes comes in to be peeled, at one point a roasted lovely chicken dinner is brought on, child enters eats, exits, -- we eat some of the chicken, becoming ravenous -- we are hungry)... slide show is attempting to be made, almost has a life of its own, yet Man seeks to nail it down and to get attention from woman who is super busy with a thousand things, to make comments. Big lecture in the next few days he is trying to prepare for. He is seen as somewhat reluctant to participate in daily things, and always out of his grasp, as she moves through the space, sometimes confused but mostly making connections with an almost dance-like (but everyday) ability to 'surf' through all that is going on, yet eventually growing tired... Nothing quite comes togethor... yet a kind of threadline is there...where the daily and the coordinates of the 'big picture' connect surprisingly at moments...perhaps in ways that the figures don't see, but which is suggested to the audience, by the child's clear understanding of what is happening...