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EANY-MEANY
by Mark Pizzato
Cast: 3 men and 4 women (with double casting). Two acts. Drama. Sets: area
staging.
Art Smith has confessed to over 300 brutal murders. The victims he has taken
credit for were left mutilated and dismembered (some decapitated). Law enforcement
officials from all over the U.S. have been clearing their files of mysterious,
unsolved cases after talking with Art Smith. But two reporters become doubtful
of Art's sincerity. They probe deeper into his past and his strange lack
of emotion over the confessed crimes. EANY-MEANY explores the darkness
at the heart of a great killer (or at least a man who believe himself to
be a great killer) and exposes the way society helps to create such an evil
figure. EANY-MEANY premiered at the Sanctuary Theatre of Washington,
DC. Book $4.00. Royalty $35-$25.
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GHOSTS IN THE WALLPAPER
by Mark Pizzato
Cast: 2 men and 2 women (with some double casting). One act. Set: the visitors
lounge of a nursing home.
An 81 year old German-American man sits alone in his wheelchair in a nursing
home, screaming at the insects and rats he sees around him. Then he realizes
that they're human beings. (He's staring at the theatre audience the ghosts
in the wallpaper of the room he's in.) And they become different kinds of
people in his wild imagination and memories. His nurse and granddaughter
visit him and also become figures from his mind. But his granddaughter wants
desperately to really get to know her grandfather at the end of his life.
When she does glimpse some of the layers of his person ality and past (his
associations with Nazism in particular), it frightens her and threatens
her friend ship with and childhood image of her grandfather. A surprisingly
funny, yet dark comedy, GHOSTS IN THE WALLPAPER explores the fragile
and fitful ties between generations, cultures, and indi vidual human beings.
Book $2.00. Royalty $20 - $10.
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THE STAR'S MASQUE
by Mark Pizzato
Cast: 2 men and 2 women. One act. Drama. Set: Backstage dressing room.
A beautiful, talented actress collapses in her dressing room chair after
a performance and halluci nates voices from the costume rack. A fan of hers
brings her flowers and they end up kissing on the floor. An old boyfriend
of the actress interrupts them and tries to bring back the past. Later,
the fan's wife also breaks in and accuses the actress of stealing her husband.
But is this all really hap pening or is it all (or partly) a dream? In this
unusual comedy, Mark Pizzato keeps the audience guessing and laughing and
exposes the fantasy figures that each character (and each of us) makes of
the other. THE STAR'S MASQUE premiered at the Source Theatre in Washington,
DC. Book $3.00. Royalty $20 - $10.
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