Dining with Drama - A collection of plays designed to be performed as themed dinner theater (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Plays to be performed as dinner theater. Playwright, Gregory J. Lavelle can be reached at (440) 724-4538 or lavellearb@aim.com for royalty information.FOR THE HOMELESS ADVOCATE A Fresh Start at the Sunrise Laundromat is a dramatic musical comedy. (also comes in a non-musical version) Bob, a former banker who has lost everything meets, Emily, a woman with a secret, in a Laundromat. In the Laundromat is Wendel, a homeless man who is obviously insane, believing that unmatched socks are visitors from another planet who will appoint him Emperor to solve the world’s problems. As usual, politics gets in the way. FOR THE MYSTERY BUFF - A Question of Guilt is an interactive jury trial murder mystery where the audience sits as jury and determines the verdict. Variations in the script keep the “mystery” a mystery, since there are alternate endings which can be presented at any given performance. COMEDIES - Jake’s Dilemma is about a paranoid old man running a diner in the middle of nowhere who believes that a tourist couple from New York are from outer space. As he holds them at gunpoint, the husband makes wild “admissions” of being an alien while the wife goes bonkers trying to convince Jake that her husband is humoring him. The tag line: “Perhaps even a crazy squirrel finds an acorn now and again.” Santa.Org is a comedy enjoyed on different levels by adults and children about what happens when Santa runs head-long into 21st century politics and technology.Smoke Ring ain’t that serious. It’s just about the end of the world. Scientists manning most powerful computer in the world, the LCC (liquid crystal computer) which they nickname “Elsie” discover a gigantic void in space heading directly toward Earth. Elsie, a bit of an idiot savant, responds technically and literally to all questions to the frustration of the scientists. Amidst the frantic comedy is a look at how the world and individuals may come to deal with the premature end to their lives.FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH - The High Road is a drama set on a plantation in Alabama before the Civil War. James Forsythe has returned from studying in the North. When informed that his father is dying and that he must take over the plantation, he forces a dilemma. He feels that slavery is wrong and decides to free his slaves. When his chief slave makes him realize that the slaves are bound more by their lack of education than their chains, James brings in a teacher to educate the slaves. James falls in love with the teacher. James faces challenges by slave owners who resort to threats of violence to attempt to ensure that James is not successful. With the common sense of his chief slave, Benjamin, and the surprising wisdom of his “simple” Aunt Emily, he is able to free the slaves. The play contains information about the underground-railroad and African-American pioneers in various fields and teaches the message, “Only through education can one truly be free to pursue his dreams”.FOR DRAMA FANS - Branches is an interactive play where the audience, therapy patients on a retreat, determine the final outcome with three alternate endings, The patient, through a magic potion, is taken back through his life to “branches” where he had faced choices and is allowed to see and bear the consequences of taking the other branch. . FOR THAT ST. PATRICK’S DAY EVENTFlanagan’s Wedding is a one act comedy set in Ireland. The parents of a thirty-two year old son, Sean, who lives too comfortably with them, conspire to dupe him into believing that he is being told by God that he should marry his girlfriend. Panic and confusion reign as Sean interprets their message from “God” as the fulfillment of a curse of his girlfriend that the devil steal his manhood as he sleeps.