LOVE AND WOOD
By Erica McLaughlin

GENRE: Comedy, Drama, Romance

LOGLINE: “It’s like love, and... wood.” “I don’t even want to know what those two have to do with each other.” Patrick, an introverted, methodical writer, yearns be a knight in shining armor for his neighbor Morgan, who burdens him with all the melodramatic details of her emotionally unfulfilling, but sexually satisfying relationship with simple, single-minded Antonio. Patrick and Morgan have an almost perfect relationship. They seem to connect flawlessly in every way but one: sexually. However, what Patrick lacks in the libido department, Antonio is more than willing to provide, leaving Morgan helplessly torn between the two men. Each character yearns to feel whole, and each one expects to achieve this elusive sense of completeness through their connection with another person. Their self-absorbed journeys lead them to stumble over all sorts of weighty, life-important questions- What and why is love? What is the relationship between creation and survival? How do we resolve the enigmatic struggle between our primal instinct to mate and our uniquely human need to connect with another being on a deep, spiritual level? As the characters' quest for definition and control becomes increasingly more desperate, the precarious balance between order and chaos, creation and destruction, is torn asunder, and the line between what (and who) is real becomes impossibly blurred. See it for yourself and decide which is better: Procreation or Conversation? Making friends or making babies? Everlasting love, or long lasting sex? Love and Wood's unconventional structure and unpredictable characters leave nothing off boundaries in this funny, modern, original work by Erica Lauren McLaughlin.

LOVE AND WOOD

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