Two hours versus a hundred years

I draft plays in the same notebook I use for structural calculations. The proportions are currently about 60% load analysis and 40% dialogue, which tells you something about my priorities even if it isn't true about my time. I work for a small firm in Observatory, Cape Town, and most of what we do is residential extensions and school refurbishments in the Cape Flats. Buildings that have to work for decades. The play I'm finishing takes ninety minutes and is set in a single kitchen and involves four people who all believe they are right. Nobody is fully right. I'm not sure that needs to be stated explicitly but I keep feeling like I should slip a line in somewhere and then I keep taking it out again. I studied at UCT and read a lot of Athol Fugard during the degree, which probably explains more than I'm comfortable with. What I want is work that operates the way his does, where the room is small but the pressure is enormous. The thing that interests me about theatre versus architecture is that you cannot make the room bigger once the play is running. You have to put everything in before you start.