Only Friends: Dream On

A drama faculty decides Shakespeare needs a twist, then hands the script to a director whose ex wants the lead. Uff. That is the opening move of Only Friends: Dream On (โอนลีเฟรนด์ : ดรีมออน), and the rehearsal schedule never stands a chance.

Senior student Jack (Earth Pirapat Watthanasetsiri) is back in the director's chair for the Faculty of Fine Arts' annual stage play. His idea is bold: Romeo & Romeo, the classic retold through two young men in love. He opens the lead roles to public auditions, which sounds fair right up until his ex boyfriend Dean (Mix Sahaphap Wongratch) walks in, ready to claim Romeo and his old place in Jack's heart.

Dean has company. Raffy (Boom Tharatorn Jantharaworakarn) has quietly loved Jack since their first year and wants the role for himself. Music student Rome (Aou Thanaboon Kiatniran) cannot stop thinking about Raffy, so when Dean offers him a deal to keep Raffy busy and far from Jack, Rome agrees. Fair warning: that deal ages about as well as milk left in the sun.

Over in the dance studio, Arnold (Joss Way-ar Sangngern) has zero interest in theatre until he hears about the cash reward for joining the production. His best friend Tua (Gawin Caskey), the show's costume designer and Dean's roommate, is happy to get him to the audition, mostly because Tua has carried a torch for Arnold for a very long time.

Then the cast list goes up, and nobody likes it. Rivalries spill off the stage, a sponsor starts asking for changes, and the line between acting and real feeling gets thinner with every rehearsal. Photographer Boston (Neo Trai Nimtawat), the same Boston from the original Only Friends, joins the team and makes everything more complicated, because of course he does.

One stage play, six friends and a script they keep rewriting off the page as well as on it. When the curtain finally comes down, who chases the dream, and who stays only friends?