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LAST RIGHT BEFORE THE VOID |
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HOW TO ORDER A READING COPY OF LAST RIGHT BEFORE THE VOID |
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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? (The reader is 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.
Christian describes "the void" to The Woman in the Oak Park High School production. |
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SYNOPSIS |
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Christian hitchhikes on a dark highway in Minnesota, waiting near the last exit before a seeming black hole. On the other side of the road, a Woman carrying a sign saying “Alaska” hitchhikes in the opposite direction. Christian crosses the road and tells her that he is a fugitive; he has run over his stepfather with his stepfather’s car in front of his house. He tells her he’s in community college, then quickly recants and tells her that he has dropped out. She tries to get him to go away, but he claims he needs someone to talk to and stays. A Man arrives and claims to be Elvis, then “proves” it by telling Christian about Christian’s birth. The Woman claims to be Medea, and Christian’s mother, while Elvis insists he’s Darth Vader and Christian’s father. Christian recants about killing his stepfather, and it turns out he is only seventeen. Just as Elvis/Darth Vader and Medea steal Christian’s shirt, leaving him to freeze on a cold night as they try to flag down aliens, the scene evaporates. Christian suddenly is outside his house, talking to his stepfather, trying to negotiate his way back inside.
Christian comes on to The Woman. |
| CAST OF CHARACTERS |
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CHRISTIAN, seventeen years old
The Woman broadcasts her final destination. |
| SOME WORDS FROM THE VOID |
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Read the first half of LAST RIGHT BEFORE THE VOID as a PDF file
Christian confronts his stepfather. |
