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.
