Better (full-length)
In a high-security meat-processing plant in the Ozarks, middle-aged line workers Ruth and Donna have long ago settled into a routine based on decades of shared resentments. But when a new figure shows up in town, cracks start to break wide open – between Ruth and Donna, and in the world high above their workstation. And what’s up with all these Security alerts lately? BETTER is a darkly comic drama about the personal and systemic forces that conspire to resist change — often and especially change for the better.
Cast
RUTH Middle aged white woman who works on the production line and has for a long, long time. She’s got a brain in her head, though, and won’t hesitate to make sure you know it. DONNA Middle aged white woman who works on the production line and has for a long, long time. Had kids when she was very young and has scrambled all her life to provide. WAYNE 30-something white man, in a managerial role. Whether because he’s balding or because he keeps it buzzed short (or both), he has very little hair. He wears short sleeve dress shirts and is no alpha male. Even beta male would be aspirational. STACIA White woman in her 20s. She has just moved here and knows no one. She is pretty and has excellent hair, in abundance. She is trying her best.
Authors
Vince Gatton