Stage Play

The following Sunday morning — The French doors are open, revealing that the center portion of the porch railing is partially broken, and is being held up by some impromptu bracing. TONY is on the phone, visibly annoyed. TONY. Yes, yes, yes. Everything is O.K. (BEAT) He’s . . . Dr. Allnut agreed to take…

Act One, Scene IV — Friday evening, just before sunset. The lights come up. Through the open French doors, we see a reddish tinge to the light above the railing. The room is set for a party; crepe paper and balloons are strung across the window curtains. A table with various food and drink items…

Act One, Scenes II and III — SCENE II Early Tuesday morning, 2 days later. There is no one in the day room; the French doors are open. Through the first window, stage left we can see some movement. ALEJANDRO, a tall, thin man dressed in tan military fatigues can be seen coming over the porch railing…

Synopsis of scenes — character list and Act One— Scene I — The scene is the day room of Aunt Martha’s Victorian ocean front mansion in East Hampton, New York. The time is summer, 1973, almost one year after the passing of William Boyd. ACT ONE Scene I — Sunday morning Scene II — Tuesday morning Scene III — Tuesday, late afternoon …

What follows is a synopsis of a stage play I wrote twenty years ago — Dear Reader, My plan is to post on Medium a stage play that I wrote in the early two thousands. At the time my play placed fourth in the McLaren Memorial Comedy Playwriting Competition in Midland Texas, just missing the opportunity of a staged reading. Why post this now? Well…