Synopsis
Five One-Act Plays
Published by Dramatists Play Service
When they haul him up, his is a final, uniting sadness - a straw dummy dressed in a soldier's uniform (1 man, 1 woman)
The Old Jew ~ sits alone in his shabby room, an old man pouring out his anguish to a group of imaginary neighbors
Then, removing his wig and makeup, reveals himself to be a young, embittered actor (1 man)
The Basement ~ is a serio-comedy study of a man who has estranged himself from his family, and given up all hope for children, career or money, to pursue the "noble" (and rather strange) scientific research which, in sad truth, has yielded only frustration and unhappiness (2 men, 1 woman)
In Fragments ~ we see three futile young men, lifelong friends (and enemies), who lash out at each other and alienate the young social worker who visits them in their cluttered room (3 men, 1 woman)
Windows ~ introduces us to a not-so-young couple who, starting over again in a new neighborhood, rent an old house with too many windows - windows which peer disturbingly on the frantic and disjointed lives of those around them (3 men, 2 women)
Five short plays about relationships that sometimes sparkle and sometimes splutter