Extensions

Set in mid-1990s NYC, this Phantom of the Opera reimagining follows one turbulent summer, when extensions cross and the lines between love and obsession blur.

1. EXTENSIONS by Olympia Ruse

SYNOPSIS

Christine Dyer is trapped. Trapped in her grief—her father’s death has left her alone in the world with no one to turn to for comfort. Trapped with no future—she can’t afford rent and tuition, and a roof over her head is more important than her aspirations for the stage... but the prospect of taking a minimum wage job and struggling forever hardly feels like a solution to her problems.

Trapped—until she’s offered a job that promises heaps of money, the ability to return to school, to pay off the creditors hounding her night and day, the ability to live again, and best of all, she can work from home.

All she has to do is answer the phone. 1-900—all her problems go away, one happy ending at a time.

Selling sex to strangers from the comfort of her sofa, any hour of the day. No different than any other acting gig.

When she connects with a co-worker on the phone, there’s something about his voice, the way he talks to her, the way he comforts her... but he’s only a voice, and all she has to keep her company in her apartment are her fantasies of him. Soon, Christine can scarcely tell fantasy from reality, and somewhere along the way, she forgets that the first rule of phone sex is to always keep your identity hidden.