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PLAY'S END |
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HOW TO ORDER A READING COPY OF PLAY'S END |
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Send me an email with the following information. Please provide ALL information requested below. 1. Your full name and your organization (theater company, school or other group). If you are a high school or college student, please include your teacher/professor's name. 2. A snail mail address and phone number for your organization. 3. When and where the production would be, and the number of performances. 4. Will admission be charged? 5. When do you expect to make a decision about using my play? 6. Can you receive attachments as PDF files? (It's a free download--link below.) If you can't, I can mail you a copy of the play. There will be a small fee assessed to cover postage and copying. 7. Please tell me how you found me and my work (I'm listed on certain websites, and it's always good to know, for both them and me, whether they're effective). 8. A statement that you understand that production of my work requires the payment of a royalty. See the note about royalties on the Plays for Production page. |
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SYNOPSIS |
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JOHN DOE, a gun salesman just shy of middle-age, arrives home to find his son JOHNNY, ten, already back from school and playing on the living room floor. As they talk, Johnny slowly comes to the realization that something "sad" has happened, but he can't remember what it is. Johnny tells John about Billy Fireman, a boy who was shot to death at school the week before. Throughout the telling of the story, Johnny continues to be bothered by his repressed memory. As he slowly reconstructs his day, and as John tells him the gun-happy family's own version of the "birds and the bees," Johnny remembers that his brother Jay has been shot, or "stung," as Johnny calls it. PLAY'S END (fka FOREPLAY) can stand alone or play with TICKING and/or YOU'RE NEXT as part of the GUNPLAY trilogy. |
| CAST OF CHARACTERS |
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JOHN DOE, door-to-door gun salesman in his late thirties or early forties
Johnny Doe (holding the rifle) and his father, John Doe, |
| A LITTLE PLAY |
