Comedy Characters: 3 male, 4 female, optional extras. Interior Set. Melanie has rented a country house where she is joined by her friend Rachel who came for a weekend but forgot to leave and by their school friend Steve. They spend nearly a year on the sofa meandering through a mental landscape of phobias, friendships, work, sex, slovenliness and epistemology. Other people happen by: Steve's girlfriend, a virtuous and annoying man Melanie picked up in a bar, and a couple who a | Pastorale by Deborah Eisenberg, Paperback | Indigo Chapters