Directed by Wendy Gough Soroka (As “Wendy Gough”)
Produced by Write Act Repertory as part of “Human Sex And… an Evening of One Act Plays.”
Hollywood
2003
Cast:
Jonathan Angelo
Douglas Leal
Karen Marie Siegel
Lori Stone
Marc Danson, an eccentric layabout, has been unemployed for several months, but has found his dream job – a Fellowship at the Zen Gakuren Interfaith Institute in Osaka. The only problem is the fellowship is for single men, and Marc is married to Dorothy, who is having an affair with her sister’s husband, Jerome. Marc is planning to poison the shrewish Dorothy, who is planning to run away with Jerome. The action is interrupted by worried phone calls from Dorothy’s sister Lena, who has been sent to the mall with the platinum card by her husband, Jerome, so he can pack up to leave her. When Marc finds out that Dorothy is planning to leave him, he is secretly thrilled – he won’t have to poison her after all! But Lena comes home early, after a fortuitous visit to Frederick’s of Hollywood and a dose of Xanax, and Jerome calls to tell Dorothy that he has changed his mind about leaving Lena. Marc hears the message, and storms around the house in a rage trying to find Dorothy to kill her. But Dorothy downs the poisoned drink on her own, and Marc finds her dying, just as the director of the Zen Gakuren Interfaith Institute calls to offer him the job in Japan.
