Synopsis
Stumps
Published by Dramatists Play Service
3 Male 2 Female
They elicit the interest of the young explicit film star, Fawn Sierra, who arrives in the hills of Austin for a creative meeting with her "manager," Calvin Rhodes, a "gentleman" who may be an ordained minister or may be evil incarnate
Calvin's dark manipulative personality slowly emerges as he tries to wrest the project from the writers. Trying to keep the events of the day in balance is Lin Ryder, the Stephen's Vietnamese wife
Ultimately, Cal destroys all semblance of balance and Lin is able to reestablish order only through catastrophic violence of her own
A psychological showdown of wills and morality
"Medoff's ambitious work takes as it's jumping off point the issue of man's abuse of women, but it is dealing with the individual conscience, what each of us is willing to sacrifice when confronted with evil from outside and from within the play is compelling from first to last. It is wrenching, outrageous and deeply affecting, and it does not flag" ~ Albuquerque Journal