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Snapshots

  • Cynthia Mercati
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 3F
  • ISBN: 9780874400298

"Mercati's piece is about searching for identity and the bumps and detours along the way. Some of it is funny, some chilling, and all of it is searching."

Des Moines Register

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Intense Adult Themes, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Snapshots is the story of three women from their teens to their middle years, each journeying both together and alone. Interspersed between the scenes are monologues, ranging from the pure comedy of Hollis teaching Bible school from a feminist perspective, to the darkness of Carol and a rape trial, to a bittersweet scene with Sherry and her assorted junk food, as she plots to move to Russia, where they like their women large, and she can stop forcing herself to be what she's not -- thin. As she says, "One thing I do know, I'm gonna be buried with a box of Ho-Ho's. I'm not facing eternity alone."

There is the scene with the soccer mom, and the parody, THE KEEPER OF THE SOCKS, and Hollis as the Linda Kay Lady, who addresses her potential buyers with the fire of an old time preacher. "Do you want to get softer, get smoother, get revived, renewed? Then you have to try the all natural, all night, all right, body purifying wrinkle bustin', hormone recharging Linda Kay gel cream lotion!"

In the final scene, they're faced with a final decision -- go on as they have been, or find their own center.
REVIEWS:

"Mercati's piece is about searching for identity and the bumps and detours along the way. Some of it is funny, some chilling, and all of it is searching."

 Des Moines Register

Premiere Production: Snapshots was first presented at Des Moines Drama Workshop, in Des Moines, Iowa, in January 1996. It was directed by Theresa E. Valada Viars.

Characters

  • Casting: 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Non-Traditional casting, Multicultural casting, All Female
  • Casting Notes: Three women who proceed from their teen's into their 40s. Each role is challenging.

  • HOLLIS - Enthusiastic; full of fantasy, and the need to arrive... somewhere. In attitude she is like a yo-yo, launching out in all directions, swinging from one idea to the next as she searches for her center.

  • SHERRY - Soft, sweet even, anxious to please, and in spite of the bleached bouffant hair, an innocent.

  • CAROL - Like a sharp stick, highly practical, with a dry wit, and highly authoritative. She tends to the tailored look, which grows progressively severe during the course of the show.

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    Snapshots is the story of three women from their teens to their middle years, each journeying both together and alone. Interspersed between the scenes are monologues, ranging from the pure comedy of Hollis teaching Bible school from a feminist perspective, to the darkness of Carol and a rape trial, to a bittersweet scene with Sherry and her assorted junk food, as she plots to move to Russia, where they like their women large, and she can stop forcing herself to be what she's not -- thin. As she says, "One thing I do know, I'm gonna be buried with a box of Ho-Ho's. I'm not facing eternity alone."

    There is the scene with the soccer mom, and the parody, THE KEEPER OF THE SOCKS, and Hollis as the Linda Kay Lady, who addresses her potential buyers with the fire of an old time preacher. "Do you want to get softer, get smoother, get revived, renewed? Then you have to try the all natural, all night, all right, body purifying wrinkle bustin', hormone recharging Linda Kay gel cream lotion!"

    In the final scene, they're faced with a final decision -- go on as they have been, or find their own center.

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