A futuristic party planning company plus a dysfunctional set of workers equals BIG TROUBLE!!
Meet the employees of Party Central Incorporated, who gets paid basically sitting down and taking calls from party throwers.
Here's what else they do: they go to their houses and prepare for their clients' parties. Sounds easy, right?
WRONG!!! You see, even a job as averagely easy as this one, they can't seem to get anything right! You may have to spell it out for them s l o w l y...and they will still not get it right!
There are 6 different personalities in this business, if you want to call it that, and they all have conflicts with each other at one time or another...
And a few consciences come into play in the midst of it all.
So join the Dysfunctional Bunch, and thank your lucky stars that you don't work here.
The Play Itself
Party Central is broken into three acts, called Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, respectively. There is no reason why it is written that way, because the play is written over a long period of time.
It actually starts three weeks after Winter becomes boss. Why is this done is also a mystery.
The acts are broken up into scenes. Each act has 5 scenes on average (Dinner has 4, and Breakfast has 7, but there are two mini scenes within scene 3). Each scene has a title, which perfectly suits the mood of the scene.
The Setting
The play is set in four different places ultimately, but the main setting is in the P.C.I. office. However, within the P.C.I. office, there's Winter's office as well, where Christian and Winter "hang" out.
The Mood
Party Central is basically a few stories in one--a love story, dysfunctional office hijinxs, and living as one big, happy, fucked-up family. There's some parts that were meant to be serious, but because of the nature of the characters, it's really close to impossible to read that part without laughing.
Language
There are a lot of words that are not in a dictionary that are in Party Central. Most of those words are obscenities, but there are so many definitions that they hold. It takes a mature person to read this play, therefore.
Fantasy vs. Reality
In the midst of what's going on already, there's a fantasy factor in the play. The fantasy factor is the consciences of Christian, Winter, and Mikau (not as much as the first two). It doesn't get too caught up in fantasy that it gets too carried away. Though this is a fictional work, it can get too unrealistic, and I didn't want that to happen.
Surprise Endings?
Well, I can't tell you too much about it, but this is why there's a Party Central II.