Synopsis
Dark No Sugar
Published by Dramatists Play Service
THE FINAL INTERROGATION OF CEAUSESCU'S DOG - Ceausescu's dog is interrogated shortly after the Romanian revolution. (2 men)
MR MORTON WAITS FOR HIS BUS - An anxious rookie cop babysits a corpse in a studio walk-up on a fourth of July weekend. (2 men)
UNITED - A young woman meets her brother's new boyfriend who turns out to be her ex-boyfriend. (2 men, 1 woman)
HAPPY FOR YOU - Five "friends" watch the Oscars on a night their "friend" has been nominated. (3 men, 2 women)
NINE-TEN - A pool of prospective jurors grumble about their plight on the day before 9/11. (3 men, 3 women)
FEAR NETWORK NEWS - "You give us five minutes, we'll scare the bejeezus out of you!" (3 men, 3 women, doubling)
PAY-PER-KILL - A killer's execution is televised on pay-per-view TV. (7 men, 2 women, doubling)
JUDAIC PARK - Steven Spielberg pitches Schindler's List to Hollywood executives. (4 men, 1 woman)
WHAT I DID WRONG - A single woman obsesses about the mistakes she made that ended her relationship with a jerk. (1 woman)
NORM-ANON - At last there's a support group for adult children of normal parents. (1 man, 2 women)
THE MORNING AFTER - The TV game clock is "automatically put on hold" when a dating-game contestant alleges abuse. (4 men, 3 women)
LOVE OF THE GAME - A star baseball player teaches his son that how you play the game is not nearly so important as winning. (1 man, 1 woman, 1 boy)
AMICI, ASCOLTATE - A son's imminent departure for Iraq prompts his father to examine the fate of men in his family when sent to war. (2 men, 1 woman, doubling)
REVIEWS
"Marvelously original ... rife with social and political satire" ~ Time Out
"A delicious spoofing of trivial urban concerns [with] a very potent sting in its narrative tale" ~ Chicago Tribune