Synopsis
Lives of the Saints - Seven One-Act Plays
Published by Dramatists Play Service
The Mystery At Twickman Vicarage - A body on the carpet, three ridiculous Masterpiece Theatre-style suspects and a bumbling Scotland Yard detective solve philosophical quandaries as they investigate who killed Jeremy Thumpington-Fffienes? (3M, 2W)
Babel`s In Arms - Two blue-collar Mesopotamian construction workers are handed a provocative task: build the Tower of Babel - or else. How many stones does it take to get to heaven, anyway? (3M, 2W)
Soap Opera - A washing-machine repairman falls in love with a picture-perfect washer. Should he tell his girlfriend Mabel? Is the washer two-timing him with a dryer? Stay tuned (3M, 2W)
Lives Of The Saints - A tender and gently comic meditation. Two women preparing a funeral breakfast in a church basement muse on life, death, and the meaning of Polish jokes - and along the way achieve a kind of sanctity (3M, 2W)
Arabian Nights - Utterly normal Norman walks into utterly ordinary Flora's shop looking for a souvenir of his travels and together they find whirlwind romance, spurred on by a wacky translator (1M, 2W or 2M, 1W)
Captive Audience - A cautionary fable tells how Rob and Laura face a menace in their living room: a television that talks back to them and threatens to swallow them whole (2M, 2W)
REVIEWS
" witty entertaininglaugh-out-loud " ~ Variety