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DEATH’S NO LAUGHING MATTER – TWO-ACT DARK COMEDY PLAY
Susan Denton’s movie career has ground to an abrupt halt when she finds out that she has been taken out of her latest movie entirely, to be replaced by a new girl, Kim, with very little experience. This makes her head ache even more than it has been over the past few days in this two-act dark comedy play. Her day goes from bad to worse when she is confronted by a stranger in her apartment. He apparently broke through the window to get in, but also happens to be Azrael, the angel of death, coming to take Susan. (It turns out that her headache was more serious than she thought) But Susan isn’t ready to go and she’ll do anything to buy more time….
Author: Tony Broadwick
Genre: Comedy, dark comedy play, two act comedy plays
Type: Two act comedy plays
Cast: 7 5M 2F
Ages of the Actors: Adult – the two F are 20’s-30’s and the men are 20’s to 50’s
Length: Two hours
Suitable for: All ages
Set: SUSAN DENTON’s living room. The furniture, the decor, rugs, and lamps are contemporary. Walls and curtains are in pastel colors. With the exception of a dozen bright red roses in a light gray vase, everything in the room is in dull, non-reflective colors. Large, framed, black-and-white, pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, and James Dean hang on the walls.
There is a well-stocked bar on stage left. A door on stage right leads to the front door. The back wall has a large window that offers the view of the city from the fourth or fifth floor. There are two doors, one on each side of the window. The door on the left leads to Susan’s bedroom. The door on the right goes to the front door. There is a small window by the side of the bar. A door to the left of the bar opens to a guest bathroom.
Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – sharp dialogue
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Copyright © February 2014 Tony Broadwick and Off The Wall Play Publishers
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