SYNOPSIS:
That Fracking Play is a surreal comedy about why it has been so hard to get the message out into the public consciousness, as well as a love story about Tom, a widower coming back to life after the death of his wife. The madness of the current political and environmental situation is reflected in the madness of the play’s structure.
CHARACTERS:
With the exception of Tom, all of the actors play several different parts – can be done with a cast of 6 or 7.
Doubling, with a cast of 7:
Actor A – male: Tom
Actor B – female: Penny
Actor C – female: Sara, Isopropanol, Sexy Voice-Over, P.A., Actress-model
Actor D – female: Methanol, August, Sexy Woman, Cheryl,
Actor E – male: Dan the horse, Charles Sandford, Jeremiah, Formaldehyde, Modal, Guam, Chair, Happy Healthy American 2, Simon Foster
Actor F – male : Horse Tey, Chime, Shar, Floor manager, Happy Healthy American 1, Waiter
Actor G- female: Sunflower, Sandra Deering, Nitrogen, Happy Healthy American, Antonia Lunder
SETTING:
Upstate New York, in the environs of a fictional town called Ionia, in the fictional Duke’s County. Several locations – suggested.
RUNNING TIME:
100 Minutes
SAMPLE DIALOGUE:
SARA: We need to talk.
TOM: Sara. You’re dead.
SARA: That is so diminishing.
TOM: It’s right there in the definition.
SARA: You have to rub it in.
TOM: Is that an accent?
SARA: No.
Maybe.
Look, I’ve been given a deadline-
TOM: Loved your deadlines.
SARA: Tom, this is-
TOM: Didn’t meet your book deadline, though-
SARA: Well, I died-
TOM: And while you were holed up in there with your books-
SARA: -Dying-
TOM: I had to deal with the frackers, and the debts, and the farm being under threat-
SARA: You have it so bloody hard.