London writer Herman Goodden has wrapped all that and more into his play Nature Abhors a Vacuum which opened Wednesday night at the McManus Theatre. “A dig at London’s downtown, some amusing insights into religion, a poignant portrait of a door-to-door seller and some genuine wisdom about marriage. The next thing I knew, I was starting a second scene with the arrival of a vacuum cleaner salesman on their front porch. I had recently sketched out a scene between a bickering husband and wife who were sneaking up on the idea of divorce but I didn’t know what to do with it where it could go that would be worth developing. It was two hours before his boss returned in the van to pick him up and in that time I got the story of his life and a sobering glimpse into just how hard life could be to a thoroughly decent and likeable man. Desperate for diversion (and credulously believing that I’d get a free set of steak knives after a ten-minute demonstration) I invited him in and things started to go wrong almost immediately when he ripped the ass out of his pants while bending over to plug in his machine. On a day when my wife and I were being stupidly snarly with each other, our miasma was interrupted by the appearance of a vacuum cleaner salesman on our front porch.
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