Ari & Noah

A Play in Five Movements

Professional Reading Edition

A complete contemporary stage play for professional consideration, private educational use, developmental reading and workshop exploration. The play unfolds across two acts, five movements and sixteen scenes.

Two Acts Five Movements Sixteen Scenes 110-115 Minutes Seven Performers

Jay E. Eff · Auteur Visuel · ISBN 978-91-991269-7-5 · 2026

Cover of Ari & Noah: A Stage Play by Jay E. Eff, Professional Reading Edition

A shared life made theatrical

Ari & Noah is a character-driven play about partnership, recognition, responsibility and the ordinary structures through which a shared life is built. Work, home, care, calendars, sound and practical action become dramatic material as the characters negotiate what it means to remain distinct while creating something durable together.

Dramatic architecture

The play is organised in two acts and five movements, with the interval after Scene Twelve. Its sixteen scenes move continuously between home, work, school, transport and public space.

  • Contemporary, flexible staging
  • Visible and normally continuous transitions
  • Recurring objects carry practical and dramatic continuity
  • Sound operates as a dramatic layer, not decorative underscoring

Open casting principle

No role is assigned a gender by the text. Age, embodiment, background and theatrical realisation remain open to production, allowing the play's central partnership to be encountered without predetermined gender coding.

  • Ari, Noah and Sam are not doubled
  • Four ensemble tracks carry the remaining roles and voices
  • Standard configuration: seven performers

Designed for theatrical flexibility

The text supports both minimal and more elaborate realisation while preserving the functional relationships between people, objects, sound and space.

Structure and scale

  • Playing time: approximately 110-115 minutes, excluding interval
  • Two acts, five movements and sixteen scenes
  • Interval after Scene Twelve
  • Standard configuration: seven performers
  • Minimal or expanded technical realisation

Playing space and access

  • A flexible contemporary space centred on a long table
  • The same space becomes home, bus, workplace, school and public building
  • Sound-led action carries narrative information
  • Equivalent non-auditory access should be preserved through captioning, visual cueing, vibration, embodied response or another appropriate path

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Literary companion editions

Ari & Noah also exists as a novel in a Standard Edition and an expanded Book Club Edition designed for shared reading, reflection and discussion. These links lead to the print editions on Amazon.com; the stage play itself remains available through the reading and rights routes above and below.

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Standard Edition hardcover · ISBN 978-91-991269-6-8

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Paperback

Standard Edition paperback · ISBN 978-91-991269-5-1

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Expanded paperback for shared reading and reflection · ISBN 978-91-991269-8-2

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Professional access with rights reserved

Private professional, educational and developmental reading is permitted from this edition. Public performance, publicly advertised staged reading, recording, adaptation, translation, broadcast, reproduction or other exploitation requires prior written permission from the rights holder.

Copyright © 2026 Jay E. Eff. All rights reserved. Published by Auteur Visuel, Linköping, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-991269-7-5.

Production, reading and rights enquiries

For professional consideration, educational use, workshop exploration, staged-reading permission or production enquiries, contact Auteur Visuel.