The Contractor/The Changing Room by David Storey.

Companion pieces first produced at the Royal Court Theatre, these two plays are the most striking examples of Storey’s plot technique of omitting the play’s central event from the onstage action in favor of dramatizing the characters’ inner states of being. The omitted events consist of a rugby match in one play and a wedding in the other. In The Changing Room, Storey substitutes locker-room action and conversation for the game; The Contractor substitutes the construction and dismantling of a wedding tent for the wedding ceremony.