ABSENT FRIENDS

Original titleABSENT FRIENDS
CategoryComedy
AgegroupAdults
Cast6 total (3 F and 3 M)
Variable cast sizeNo
RepresentationNordic representation
LanguagesDanish, Swedish
Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancée so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and Marge and her husband is perpetually out of circulation with trivial illnesses are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties. By the time Colin arrives for tea, their tenseness contrasts dramatically with his air of cheerful relaxation. He is the only happy one among them – and his happiness and insensitive analyses of their troubles causes each of them to break down.