Griffin in Summer

Shhh

Shhh

You know our love was meant to be,

The kind of love that lasts forever.

And I want you here with me.

From right now until the end of time.

You should know everywhere I go,

Always on my mind.

In my heart, in my soul.

Baby, you're the meaning in my life.

You're the inspiration.

You bring feeling to my life.

You're the inspiration.

Wanna have you near me.

I want to have you hear me saying.

No one needs you more than I need you.

Okay, wow.

That was very nice.

Very nice.

Okay, next person up, we have Griffin Neffley.

Nafly?

Griffin Nafly, everybody.

Put your hands together.

Thank you.

Today I'll be performing an excerpt from my new play,

"Regrets of Autumn."

Harriet, I'm home.

Oh, how was your day?

Oh, you know, just another busy

day working down on Wall Street.

Right.

What?

Oh, nothing.

It's just you've been working a lot lately.

Well what am I supposed to do?

New York City costs money.

Living on Central Park West costs money.

And your liquor store bills cost money.

Don't turn this around on me.

Harriet, you know you're not supposed

to be drinking on your medication.

Oh, so you're a doctor now too, huh?

Just tell me her name, Walter.

I don't need this.

What about what I need?

I'm your wife.

After 20 years, does that not mean anything?

Of course it does.

Then who is she?

Some skank from the secretarial pool?

Listen, Harriet, I'm sorry

that our marriage didn't turn out

the way you wanted.

But you can't keep blaming me for everything

that went wrong with your life.

The miscarriages were not my fault.

How dare you!

Where are you going?

Any place without you is better than here.

Oh, and one more thing, Walter.

They weren't miscarriages.

They were abortions.

They were abortions!

Thank you.

Yeah, It went great.

Nice.

Yeah, I mean, I just--

you know, I don't really think

teenagers are like

our target demographic.

But yeah, good.

So, uh, how was your last day?

It was fine.

Except they forced me to participate in some relay race.

Literal torture.

Griffin, dinner!

Sorry. Helen.

So, I have the cast list in a

.TXT doc made the poster on Canva

and I have a spreadsheet for the rehearsal schedule.

But I can just send them to you as PDFs.

Yeah, sure.

Great.

And you've confirmed everyone for the production

meeting tomorrow morning, yes?

Oh, um...

Yeah!

It's just 8 AM.

Might be a little early.

Why?

I just think some people might be going out tonight.

Maybe noon is better.

10 AM is as late as I'm willing to push it.

Okay, cool.

Great.

And you'll confirm that with everybody like right now?

Yes, Griffin.

Great.

Confirmed.

Honestly, I could use any help I can get.

It's just-- it's such a mess back there.

Hi, I'm going to need a ride to Java Joe's tomorrow at 10.

Thanks.

Sorry, just, um, what?

I am going to need a ride.

What for?

We're having our first Regrets of Autumn meeting.

Okay, Peg, I'm sorry.

I have to go, but just tell him tomorrow is great.

And thanks again.

Okay, so you're going to be producing...

another play

out of our basement this summer.

This was all in the mass email I sent out

10 days ago.

Yes, I know.

I did read it.

It's just-- I'm going to be working so much.

And I can't have your father coming home to a mess.

We won't make a mess.

God!

Okay, just--

Sweetie, don't you want to do other things this summer?

Like use the pool, or maybe ride that bike we got you,

or--

I don't know, anything other than just sitting

in this house all day working on your plays.

No.

- Okay. - I'll be at the door at 9:45.

Thanks.

Oh my god, you're so drunk.

I'm so drunk.

I'm so drunk.

Dude, oh my god.

It's so good.

We were so drunk.

Hey, sorry I'm late.

Helen overslept, of course.

Oh, all good.

Oh my god, my mom's gonna kill me!

What's funny?

Oh, nothing.

It's just--

Tyler's sister bought us a hard seltzer last night.

Tyler!, Woo!

I'm still hungover.

Oh, fun.

So anyways, we have some news.

Kara?

Yeah, cool.

So--

So I wrote a play.

Kara's going to direct it,

and we want the three of you

to star.

Cool!

You finished a whole play?

Uh, yes.

Thank you.

What's it about this year?

Well, I'm still like, figuring it out, but

basically, it's

" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf " meets " American Beauty".

Nice.

Yeah, um, so Winnie, you'll be playing Harriet,

a stay-at-home, barren alcoholic

who's married to Walter,

a Wall Street banker slash serial adulterer

played by Tyler.

Cool.

And, uh, Pam, you'll be playing Walter's social-climbing

mistress, Scarlett.

Sweet.

Right, um, so I know we've done other small shows

in my basement before, but, um, this is a full two acts.

I mean like, we're going to rent a real theater somewhere

outside of Borwood, like over in New Harbor or Edgar

Town or wherever, and we just--

you know, we really want to do

everything totally off-Broadway,

equity, professional level.

Helen!

Where are my LUNA Bars?

I mean, I look at everything.

It feels like a lot.

But yeah, like around the pool is obviously just a mess,

and then--

um...

oh, Griffin, you're back.

Kara's dad gave me a ride.

Okay, yeah, great.

Um, this is Brad.

Mrs. Rizzo's son.

He's going to be helping me around the house this week.

Uh, hi.

Sorry, LUNA Bars?

Uh, yes, they are above the fridge.

And I have an open house

today, so you can just use my Venmo

to order dinner.