Manipulative
a comedy
A privileged student seeks payback after her mother offers refuge to an interloping stranger.
Cast: 3m, 4f
Female
CELIA CARTER, 20, music student
JACKI WILLIAMS, 20, initially unemployed, later a design student
MAUREEN CARTER, 50s or 60s, Celia’s mother, retired
BRENDA MILES, 20s, usher
Male
GAVIN STONE, 20s, real estate agent
ARTU, 20s or 30s, security guard
PAUL, 20, law student, Celia’s boyfriend
Setting
Los Angeles
Time
Spring and summer. After the theaters reopen
Cast: 3m, 4f
Female
CELIA CARTER, 20, music student
JACKI WILLIAMS, 20, initially unemployed, later a design student
MAUREEN CARTER, 50s or 60s, Celia’s mother, retired
BRENDA MILES, 20s, usher
Male
GAVIN STONE, 20s, real estate agent
ARTU, 20s or 30s, security guard
PAUL, 20, law student, Celia’s boyfriend
Setting
Los Angeles
Time
Spring and summer. After the theaters reopen
(online reading of the first ten pages)
First Fridays
The Barrow Group
New York, NY
April 2, 2021
Cast: Kate McMorran (Celia), Sol-Marie Quintero (Jacki), Monica Sharma (Maureen), Samiha Mehnaz (Brenda), Merlin Whitehawk (Gavin), Wes Candela (Artu), William Mok (Paul)
First Fridays
The Barrow Group
New York, NY
April 2, 2021
Cast: Kate McMorran (Celia), Sol-Marie Quintero (Jacki), Monica Sharma (Maureen), Samiha Mehnaz (Brenda), Merlin Whitehawk (Gavin), Wes Candela (Artu), William Mok (Paul)
Sol-Marie Quintero (Jacki), Kate McMorran (Celia), Merlin Whitehawk (Gavin), Monica Sharma (Maureen), William Mok (Paul), Samiha Mehnaz (Brenda), Wes Candela (Artu)
One scene from an early draft (Seductive Haven) - Lament of the Failed Alcoholic - produced by Small Fish Radio Theatre, Intoxicated, live recording at Chicago Dramatists, Chicago, March 23, 2014