Teacher Guide

Sure Thing Lesson Plan

Introduction to Sure Thing

Sure Thing is one of the six short plays that comprise David Ives's well-known series All in the Timing. Two characters, Bill and Betty, meet in a café; every time a bell rings, their approaches and answers to each other change at different points in the conversation, until finally the bell-based alterations lead them to become perfect matches for each other.

Key Aspects of Sure Thing

Tone

The play's tone is light and comic.

Setting

The play is set in a café, likely in the 1990s somewhere in the northeastern United States.

Point of view

As a play, Sure Thing has no one set point of view, and its two characters are equally cyphers—not clear "characters"—and protagonists.

Character...

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