SPADINA SNIPERS:
JAMES DEAN, LEROY ‘THE REAL’ MCCOY, CHARLIE ‘CHAPLIN’ CHAN.
THE SCARBOROUGH ASSASSINS:
BERNARD ‘KILLER’ HOPKINS, JIM ‘THE JACKHAMMER’ JOHNSON and DARNELL ‘MANIAC’ MADSEN.
And FEATURING: SAMUEL JACKSON as REGGAE-CABBIE. (more…)
A man in a black suit stands beside a tall barstool at centre stage. There are three yellow spotlights and the man stands under the middle one. He has a glass of wine. There is a piano behind him.
Soft music is heard but no one is playing the piano.
I died in France.
Of course that wasn’t my goal. It just happened that way. People, most people, don’t choose the location of their demise. They end up in hospitals or along the side of a dark highway. They find their terminal scene set in a mineshaft or an over loaded ferryboat in the Philippines. I doubt these are places that people have chosen or intentionally selected. I’ve heard that most people die in their own beds. That sounds nice. Well, nicer than the bottom of a canyon or the sidewalk next to a high-rise apartment. I died in Paris, the City of Lights, and as luck would have it I died in a cemetery although I am not buried in that cemetery. (more…)
CAST
WHITE A 17-year-old female character dressed in mainly stark bright white.
RED The same/similar female character at 17 ½ and wearing mainly dark maroon or blood red.
BLUE The same/similar female character at 18 and wearing mainly bright medium blue.
(This is an excerpt of a one-act play)
CHARACTERS
GLADYS, co-host and mother
ALICE, host
CHLOE, Gladys’ daughter, eight years old
Act One, Scene One
A bed sits stage right in a dimly lit room. CHLOE lies with the covers pulled tight under her chin. Her face is illuminated. A loud, deep rumbling sound, like a giant footstep is heard.
CHLOE Hello?
The sound becomes a loud slavering noise, like snorting and chewing, followed by another rumbling step.
CHLOE Hello? Who’s there? Mom?… Mom?
A horrible roar resounds. Lights out. (more…)
