CHINESE COFFEE

A play about friendship and the loss of it - Harry Levine and Jake Manheim are two friends and failed artists. Harry, an obscure novelist, broke and shivering lands up at Jake's apartment at one thirty in the morning one February to claim the money he lent Jake few months back. But Harry is also interested in Jake's feedback on his new novel that he gave Jake a month ago. Jake denies reading his novel but as the evening unfurls, it turns out that Jake has read the novel but pretends he hasn't. What ensues is the crux of the play. The play was successfully adapted into a movie by Al Pacino in 2000.