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3 Stories From Middleville

Easyshow 50
Multi-Act - Comedy by Matt Worzala
Cast
Male: 8
Female: 5
Either: 4
This is the maximum number of actors needed. The number can be reduced to 4 males and 2 females by having actors play different parts in each


Description
Three separate but interweaving stories in a town called Middleville. Communists, infidelity, murder plots, escaped animals and, of course, Mole Men, all play a part.

Rating
Some mature topics

Additional Notes
This play can be performed as a whole or as individual parts. Contact Matt at romanworz@yahoo.com if you wish to purchase individual segments.

Reviews
'Middleville' is no middlin' comedy.

...The stories tease phony facades of TV families, twitching about Commies, almost-real science advances and, for some reason, Ohio.

New, original... adventuresome, thought-out, fun -- "3 Stories from Middleville" has its share of pluses.

-Warren Gerds, Green Bay Press-Gazette, September 11th 2006, 3 1/2 out of 4 stars

Production History
Venture Theatre, De Pere, WI 2006

Excerpt
HAROLD sits, thinks for a moment

HAROLD;
Martha, are you planning on murdering me?

MARTHA sticks her head out from the kitchen

MARTHA:
I'm sorry dear, did you just say murder you?

HAROLD:
Yes. It's a perfectly legitimate question. I think in every couple's life, especially a married couple, there comes a point in time when you consider murdering the other.

MARTHA:
I suppose that's true.

HAROLD:
So, are you?

MARTHA:
No dear.

HAROLD:
Just paranoia then I guess. Well, here's to paranoia.

HAROLD pours himself a drink and takes a big gulp before sitting back down. MARTHA EXITS. HAROLD thinks again for a moment, then begins to pepper MARTHA with questions. MARTHA exposes her head each time to answer, then ducks back into the kitchen.

HAROLD:
We're having roast for dinner?

MARTHA:
Yes dear.

HAROLD:
With those little potatoes I like?

MARTHA:
Yes dear.

HAROLD:
Rebecca will be home soon?

MARTHA:
Yes dear.

HAROLD:
Are you planning on murdering me?

MARTHA:
Yes dear.

MARTHA ducks her head back into the kitchen. A beat passes, then she ENTERS

MARTHA:
Oh shoot. I knew I'd never be able to keep it a secret.

HAROLD:
It's not one of your strong suits.

MARTHA:
Still, almost three weeks, that's a personal record I do believe.

HAROLD:
Gadzooks! So you've been planning this for three weeks?

MARTHA:
Why yes Harold. Ever since the earthquake. I didn't just come up with it as I was putting the roast in. Oh! The roast.

EXIT MARTHA

HAROLD:
Might I ask why?

MARTHA:
(off-stage) Oh why does any wife murder her husband? I've fallen in love with someone else and wish to leave you.

HAROLD:
Bradley.

ENTER MARTHA

MARTHA:
(pleased) Well done Harold. Yes, I'm in love with Bradley. I have been for months now, but I was content with simply seeing him behind your back. But after that horrible earthquake I realized life was too short for sneaking around. I want some happiness in my life and I want it now.

HAROLD:
So, in a nutshell, almost dying in the earthquake inspired you to kill me?

MARTHA:
If you wish to nutshell it, darling.

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Author

romanworz@yahoo.com
Matt Worzala
611 Tyrolian Drive
Green Bay WI, 54302

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