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Writing·Thomas J. Misuraca

Button

by Thomas J. Misuraca CHARACTERS PERSON ONE PERSON TWO SETTING An office. TIME Lunchtime. SYNOPSIS Person One’s job is to hit a button every thirty seconds. When Person Two fills in for him for lunch, he asks what would happen...

Writing·Stephen Baily

Buster’s Last Stand

BUSTER’S LAST STAND A Short Play Stephen Baily ——— Synopsis An expectant couple in urgent need of a bigger apartment find themselves up against a landlord with a thing against dogs. ——— Characters MARGARET VYBORG, mid-twenties, visibly pregnant VERN VYBORG,...

Writing·Gary Beck

Funeral Strains

Scene 1 (Pre-show. Offstage. Blaring sounds of anti-gay, anti-military protest, by a radical church group, attempting to disrupt the burial service of a gay Marine, Tom Richardson, killed in combat in Afghanistan. ‘God hates fags’. ‘Thank God for dead soldiers’....

Writing·L. Shapley Bassen

“Upon a Time … Ever After”

“Upon a Time…” was inspired by the 1979 Manhattan kidnapping of Etan Patz – his story never left me. It was the second act in a full-length play titled THE 14th FLOOR that was a 1996 contest winner in Canada...

Writing·Ioana Cosma

Take It or Believe It

A pre-electoral TV show in contemporary Romania. Two guests are present: Mr Orchid, a nouveau-riche who is ostentatiously opulent and in bad taste, and Mr Poppy, his brother-in-law who is equally rich, but the intellectual type. They have been invited...