Brainstorm: "Nothing Much" new project

Working title:  Nothing Much

Inspiration:
New York Times article stating that Projection Design is now a major at the Yale School of Drama because of the prevalence of projection use in contemporary theatre.

Skype call on March 12, 2010 with Jennifer H. where we caught up with life while being eight time zones away from each other. 

Teisch's (sp?) play Speed of Darkness about a modern family having their skeletons dragged out of the closet.

Plot:
Andrew and Roxanne were best friends in college.  It is now eight years later.  Andrew has settled down with a wife and kids, house, the American Dream-esque existence.  Roxanne is in Africa (right now, S. Africa...might change with research process) with Doctors Without Borders.  They Skype each other and catch up.  Play opens with seemingly banal conversation.

Roxanne gets leave to go back to the states.  Having no family, she decides to go visit Andrew.  This throws things apart for Andrew because the life of his perfect wife and two children doesn't exist anymore--wife died in a car crash with one (maybe both) of the children.  Andrew maintains facade with Roxanne because its the only place in his life where he can pretend the happiness exists that he thinks he would've had with his family. 

Roxanne imparts on a task to save him while at the same time struggling between the two calls of duty:  does she save her longtime friend who has no one else or does she go back to her calling as a doctor in the part of the world that truly needs her?

Motif throughout the show will be video calls between characters in different areas projected on screen (like they appear on a computer).  This will provide the contrast between what people say when they communicate between computers and the reality of life that doesn't fit on a webcam.  Are we who we really are when other people are watching, or do we all become the film editors of our own lives.