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A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 3m
Marcia Kash, Douglas E. Hughes
In this timely political farce, presidential candidate Raymond Bream comes back to his hometown of Port Pilchard to make a major announcement that will likely win him the election. Meanwhile, the incumbent, President Weever, has sent a couple of henchmen to town to prevent Bream from making his speech – by any means necessary.
In this timely political farce, presidential candidate Raymond Bream comes back to his hometown of Port Pilchard to make a major announcement that will likely win him the election. Meanwhile, the incumbent, President Weever, has sent a couple of henchmen to town to prevent Bream from making his speech – by any means necessary. The showdown takes place on the stage of the local community center where an amateur theatre troupe is about to open their latest production, The Vicar’s Knickers. As the world of politics encounters its natural cousin – the world of farce – everyone is forced to don disguises and take on numerous roles, and suddenly no one is who they appear to be. Will Bream get to the podium to make his speech, or will the president’s hatchet men win the day?
Something Fishy has 14 characters who are designed to be played by five actors. The breakdown is as follows:
ACTOR 1 RAYMOND BREAM – Mid-40s to mid-50s; a successful career politician running for office; handsome and charismatic. ROLAND BREAM – Raymond’s identical twin brother; an actor in the Port Pilchard Players (PPP); a shaggy, unkempt but likeable loser. DR. ZINGEL – 60ish; a stereotypical German scientist in a lab coat and Einstein hair.
ACTOR 2 LORENA – Late 30s; Raymond’s campaign manager; attractive, Puerto Rican, speaks English fluently but with a pronounced accent. MOLLY – 30s; stage manager for the PPP; quintessential stage manager type: overworked and undervalued, but good at her job. JUDY – 40ish; one of the PPP actors; opinionated, very full of herself, has an air of superiority about her.
ACTOR 3 PENELOPE – 50s; a Southern belle and artistic director of the PPP; warm, outgoing, a mother hen. MANDY – Older than Penelope but trying desperately to look 25 years younger; an actor in the company; vain, voluptuous, oversexed. WEEVER – 50 to 60; an unscrupulous, power-hungry, buttoned-up politician and Bream’s opponent in the election.
ACTOR 4 GILL – Late 40s to 50s; Weever’s hatchet man, a hard-boiled, old-school backroom political operative. COLIN – 50s; an affable, enthusiastic actor in the PPP.
ACTOR 5 SHARKEY – 30s; Gill’s partner in crime, new to the political game but an avid pupil. WHITING – Late 20s; cub reporter for a right-wing news website, tenacious, ambitious, cynical. CLARK – 30s; another PPP stalwart; a mild-mannered, good-natured, loyal friend of Colin’s.
“Skewers politics, politicians, the media, environmental and economic issues, and even community theatre itself.” – The Simcoe Reformer
“A great catch!... It skewers politics, politicians, the media, environmental and economic issues, and even community theatre itself.” – The Simcoe Reformer