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JAMES L ROSENBERG |
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Plays by James L Rosenberg |
Death And Life Of Sneaky Fitch | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30120 | |||
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Genre: | A Farcial Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | To the ambitious little town of Gopher Gulch, Sneaky Fitch is an abrasive disgrace-a no-good, drunken, brawling nuisance. When he falls ill there is a sigh of relief, and when he apparently dies (thanks to some suspicious "medicine" administered by the departing Doc Burch) there are few tears. But when Sneaky rises from his coffin the picture changes, for no one dares confront a man who has come back from the dead. Capitalizing on his "invincibility" Sneaky soon takes over as sheriff, mayor and town banker-not to mention being the man who faces down Rackham, the fastest gun in the West. In short, where he was formerly unbearable he is now insufferable. But mortality (thanks to the reappearance of Doc Burch) suddenly returns, and once the truth is out it's curtains for Sneaky-this time for keeps-and all ends as boisterously and happily as you might wish. | |||||
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Mel Says to Give You His Best | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #30121 | |||
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Genre: | black comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | A remarkable original and innovative "black comedy," which makes deft use of absurdist techniques to illuminate the shadowed recesses between what is real and what is imagined | |||||
Synopsis: | Carver, a struggling writer, is awakened in the middle of the night to find Rapp, a young black man, at his door. Rapp claims that a mutual friend," Mel Coppersmith (whom Carver can't recall), told him that he would find a welcome at Carver's any time, day or night, so he blithely invites himself to stay. Thereafter, in a sequence of sometimes funny, sometimes disquieting scenes, punctuated by a disembodied voice which booms "Please maintain your focus," Rapp insinuates himself ever more insidiously into Carver's life. He talks of finding a job, but nothing is suitable; he promises not to interfere with Carver's work, and then proceeds to do so; he taunts and menaces Carver; he brings in a mute black girl to share the already crowded apartment; and, before long, he suggests that Carver should be the one to leave. Ultimately the shaken Carver, after having come close to violence, conceives the means to rid himself of Rapp-whereupon the doorbell rings again, this time disclosing a young white man with a pretty blonde girl at his side: friends of Mel Coppersmith's, looking for a place to crash! | |||||
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