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TAKE TEN!: A CHRISTIE FOR CHRISTMAS AND 9 MORE 10-MINUTE PLAYS
TAKE TEN! A CHRISTIE FOR CHRISTMAS
and 9 MORE 10-MINUTE PLAYS
1 - A CHRISTIE FOR CHRISTMAS
Agatha Christie, traumatized by marital infidelity, seeks help from Sigmund Freud. His brilliant analysis is not only helpful but provides her with ideas for a new play. When Christie reveals that she quickly repaid infidelity in kind, she turns the discussion to female orgasm and the Kama Sutra, and Freud is shaken out of his sophistication and professional detachment. (Historical the manuscript of Christie’s The Lie was locked away in 1927 and not discovered till 2015. A costumed reading was performed at the Annual International Agatha Christie Festival in September 2018.)
2 - YOU KNOW THE TRUTH
Only after his divorce from Rachel does Ray learn about her past and the events that led to her schizophrenia and the undoing of their marriage.
3 - BACK STORY
In Back Story, the solid man is saved by his un sullied woman (sorry, James Joyce), but nothing can save the serpent from getting knocked out in the first round. Here is the manuscript that the editors of Genesis failed to find.
4 - VANITY PLATE
A license plate sparks an infatuation that goes from 0 to 100 faster than the Jaguar that carries it. John tries to give his best friend Rod a reality check, but Rod is determined to jump start an improbable relationship. Looking out for Rod’s interests, John lurks at the starting line, where it looks as if there is going to be a green flag. And then … a checkered flag before the race begins. Rod wonders exactly what happened, and John salvages what he can of the reality check, recognizing at the same time that things were getting a bit unreal even for himself.
5 - DR. JEKYLL AND THE HYDES
The good doctor and his evil twin were destined to have a stormy relationship, but when Mrs. Hyde shows up asking the doctor for help with her husband’s darkening moods, love raises the stakes for all three of them.
6 - TELLING LIVES
Dead men tell no lies, but family and acquaintances gathered for funeral home visitation can mask and unmask the truth, revealing more about themselves than they reveal in their reminiscences about the newly departed.
7 - SCRATCHING A WINNER IN A GOTHIC
THE STORY OF LOTTOROBOTIC BEMBI
An affluent woman addicted to buying scratch and win tickets daily once faced death with a shrug and no longer recognizes the face of the grim reaper.
8 - AS HAPPY AS I COULD MAKE HIM
Dolores goes on a first date with Martin, not knowing that he is a psychotherapist. Neither one seems capable of cutting short a dinner that quickly turns into an unscheduled therapy session, until Martin discovers why he should not be dating Dolores.
9 - I’M GOING TO HUG YOU
When Tom’s wife dies, a visit from Nan, her best friend of years ago, awakens a troubling memory. He rejects his friend Conrad’s insight into why the memory is making him hostile toward Nan. When they meet a second time, Nan reveals memories of her own that confirm Conrad’s insight and banish Tom’s hostility.
10 – FROM FIRE TO SPIRE
Before Marshall McLuhan became a media guru on the world stage, he was a professor of English literature. Part microscope and part kaleidoscope, this play takes McLuhan from Cambridge University in 1934 to Madison, Wisconsin in 1936 and then puts him outside time in the company of philosophers (Heraclitus), artists (Picasso, Joyce) and innovators from Sigmund Freud to Henry Ford.
and 9 MORE 10-MINUTE PLAYS
1 - A CHRISTIE FOR CHRISTMAS
Agatha Christie, traumatized by marital infidelity, seeks help from Sigmund Freud. His brilliant analysis is not only helpful but provides her with ideas for a new play. When Christie reveals that she quickly repaid infidelity in kind, she turns the discussion to female orgasm and the Kama Sutra, and Freud is shaken out of his sophistication and professional detachment. (Historical the manuscript of Christie’s The Lie was locked away in 1927 and not discovered till 2015. A costumed reading was performed at the Annual International Agatha Christie Festival in September 2018.)
2 - YOU KNOW THE TRUTH
Only after his divorce from Rachel does Ray learn about her past and the events that led to her schizophrenia and the undoing of their marriage.
3 - BACK STORY
In Back Story, the solid man is saved by his un sullied woman (sorry, James Joyce), but nothing can save the serpent from getting knocked out in the first round. Here is the manuscript that the editors of Genesis failed to find.
4 - VANITY PLATE
A license plate sparks an infatuation that goes from 0 to 100 faster than the Jaguar that carries it. John tries to give his best friend Rod a reality check, but Rod is determined to jump start an improbable relationship. Looking out for Rod’s interests, John lurks at the starting line, where it looks as if there is going to be a green flag. And then … a checkered flag before the race begins. Rod wonders exactly what happened, and John salvages what he can of the reality check, recognizing at the same time that things were getting a bit unreal even for himself.
5 - DR. JEKYLL AND THE HYDES
The good doctor and his evil twin were destined to have a stormy relationship, but when Mrs. Hyde shows up asking the doctor for help with her husband’s darkening moods, love raises the stakes for all three of them.
6 - TELLING LIVES
Dead men tell no lies, but family and acquaintances gathered for funeral home visitation can mask and unmask the truth, revealing more about themselves than they reveal in their reminiscences about the newly departed.
7 - SCRATCHING A WINNER IN A GOTHIC
THE STORY OF LOTTOROBOTIC BEMBI
An affluent woman addicted to buying scratch and win tickets daily once faced death with a shrug and no longer recognizes the face of the grim reaper.
8 - AS HAPPY AS I COULD MAKE HIM
Dolores goes on a first date with Martin, not knowing that he is a psychotherapist. Neither one seems capable of cutting short a dinner that quickly turns into an unscheduled therapy session, until Martin discovers why he should not be dating Dolores.
9 - I’M GOING TO HUG YOU
When Tom’s wife dies, a visit from Nan, her best friend of years ago, awakens a troubling memory. He rejects his friend Conrad’s insight into why the memory is making him hostile toward Nan. When they meet a second time, Nan reveals memories of her own that confirm Conrad’s insight and banish Tom’s hostility.
10 – FROM FIRE TO SPIRE
Before Marshall McLuhan became a media guru on the world stage, he was a professor of English literature. Part microscope and part kaleidoscope, this play takes McLuhan from Cambridge University in 1934 to Madison, Wisconsin in 1936 and then puts him outside time in the company of philosophers (Heraclitus), artists (Picasso, Joyce) and innovators from Sigmund Freud to Henry Ford.
113 pages, Paperback
Published September 23, 2021
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