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| LANDLESS PLAY COMPETITION! "SO BAD, IT'S GOOD!" |
PLAY TITLE: Tiger In Your Pooch
PLAYWRIGHT: Dennis Porter
SIMON SHAKESPEARE SAYS:
"The play wasn't bad, but the
title was awful."
RANDY SHAKESPEARE SAYS:
"This play is in my
dawg-pound."
PAULA SHAKESPEARE SAYS:
"How can I get some tiger in
mine...? (alcoholic
drug-induced babble, etc.)"
"The play wasn't bad, but the
title was awful."
RANDY SHAKESPEARE SAYS:
"This play is in my
dawg-pound."
PAULA SHAKESPEARE SAYS:
"How can I get some tiger in
mine...? (alcoholic
drug-induced babble, etc.)"
"The mother of all farces—or maybe just the
daughter... Imagine a hot spring day at
Muddleberry College, where President Trendy is
waiting with his Vice President and lover Shelley
Willing for Clyde H. Krautdammer, the C.E.O. of
Overdog to arrive--a Fortune Five Hundred pet
food company. Krautdammer is about to sign off on
a multi-million dollar donation that Trendy is
counting on to rescue the college from potential
default.
But events start to spin out of control from the
start when the Radical Student Union organizes a
protest demonstration against the company and
Dean Fiona Lightouch, whom Krautdammer has a
crush on, is found dead in her office surrounded
by bottles. Fearing the controversy will drive their
cautious benefactor away for good, panicked
Trendy and Willing spend the rest of the play
fighting off threats posed 1. by a radical woman
professor, Martha Diebenballs, who is organizing
the protest; and 2. by Klumbo, the Private Eye she
hires to investigate the Dean's sudden
disappearance. The sixth member of the cast,
Freddie Lightouch, Fiona's fraternal twin and a
nerdy Assistant Professor of Classics, is
persuaded against his better judgment to
impersonate his deceased sister for the day so
that Krautdammer suspects nothing and coughs up
his restorative millions. Amazingly, Freddie
succeeds in his cross-gender role better than
anyone, including himself, had anticipated. And the
turmoil ends with a manic parody of a mystery story
"happy ending" that has a lunatic touch of Gosford
Park.
All the action takes place in a single set,
President Trendy's office on the Muddleberry
College campus on a hot summer day early in the
21st century."
daughter... Imagine a hot spring day at
Muddleberry College, where President Trendy is
waiting with his Vice President and lover Shelley
Willing for Clyde H. Krautdammer, the C.E.O. of
Overdog to arrive--a Fortune Five Hundred pet
food company. Krautdammer is about to sign off on
a multi-million dollar donation that Trendy is
counting on to rescue the college from potential
default.
But events start to spin out of control from the
start when the Radical Student Union organizes a
protest demonstration against the company and
Dean Fiona Lightouch, whom Krautdammer has a
crush on, is found dead in her office surrounded
by bottles. Fearing the controversy will drive their
cautious benefactor away for good, panicked
Trendy and Willing spend the rest of the play
fighting off threats posed 1. by a radical woman
professor, Martha Diebenballs, who is organizing
the protest; and 2. by Klumbo, the Private Eye she
hires to investigate the Dean's sudden
disappearance. The sixth member of the cast,
Freddie Lightouch, Fiona's fraternal twin and a
nerdy Assistant Professor of Classics, is
persuaded against his better judgment to
impersonate his deceased sister for the day so
that Krautdammer suspects nothing and coughs up
his restorative millions. Amazingly, Freddie
succeeds in his cross-gender role better than
anyone, including himself, had anticipated. And the
turmoil ends with a manic parody of a mystery story
"happy ending" that has a lunatic touch of Gosford
Park.
All the action takes place in a single set,
President Trendy's office on the Muddleberry
College campus on a hot summer day early in the
21st century."
SAMPLE DIALOGUE:
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property of the competing playwrights, provided for the sole purpose of gathering
feedback for this contest. All rights reserved.
TRENDY
I realize Krautdammer doesn’t have much idea what makes a woman tick, but don’t you
think even he might notice the difference?
WILLING
What difference?
TRENDY
The alive and dead difference.
WILLING
He may or may not. But I guess we can’t take the chance.
TRENDY
Then there’s only one solution.
WILLING
What’s that?
TRENDY
Bring her back to life.
WILLING
A resurrection? As far as I know, it’s only been done once.
TRENDY
You and I have beaten the odds before, Shelley…
Note: All excerpts and other items posted on this website are the exclusive intellectual
property of the competing playwrights, provided for the sole purpose of gathering
feedback for this contest. All rights reserved.
TRENDY
I realize Krautdammer doesn’t have much idea what makes a woman tick, but don’t you
think even he might notice the difference?
WILLING
What difference?
TRENDY
The alive and dead difference.
WILLING
He may or may not. But I guess we can’t take the chance.
TRENDY
Then there’s only one solution.
WILLING
What’s that?
TRENDY
Bring her back to life.
WILLING
A resurrection? As far as I know, it’s only been done once.
TRENDY
You and I have beaten the odds before, Shelley…
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