Coffee stains and empty frames: A play

By Marc Jacobson

Step into a small, quiet caf nestled inside an art gallery, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary and every coffee stain tells a story. Coffee Stains and Empty Frames is an evocative, poetic play that explores love, longing, memory, and the subtle chaos of human connection.
Through delicate dialogue and striking imagery, the play follows four characters El, Mara, Sebastian, and Clara whose interactions revolve around coffee, empty frames, and the marks left behind. Each scene transforms everyday gestures into profound reflections on presence, absence, and the traces we leave in each other's lives. Steam curls, coffee drips, and shadows stretch, creating a contemplative world where silence speaks for itself and words are mere sounds, not information exchange.
This play is a meditation on intimacy, imperfection, and the beauty found in overlooked details, Coffee Stains and Empty Frames invites readers to observe the art of human relationships in a space that is both familiar and surreal.
The play is less about narrative events and more about emotional landscapes. It's a meditation on how people leave marks on objects, on each other, and on time itself through attention, desire, or absence. Coffee stains, empty frames, and the rhythm of daily rituals act as metaphors for memory, intimacy, and the human tendency to notice and be noticed, to touch and be touched, and traces that we leave in others.

Join us in the meditation. Join us at the caf of coffee stains

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8011074555
• ISBN13: 9788011074555
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Just for Publishing
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"