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Roadkill Confidential

  • Sheila Callaghan
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Contemporary
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573699238

"It's a sick sitcom, it's a thriller, it's a parody, it's a commentary on the art world, it's a -- this one's borrowed from the script's title page -- 'noir-ish meditation on brutality.'"

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Smoking, Strong Language, Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
A possibly rogue g-man stalks a stalled-out artist with a suspicious affinity for accident victims. Traps are set, traps are sprung, and everyone gets caught.  Roadkill Confidential tackles, with style, humor and high theatricality, mediated violence and the numbness it produces, and, whether in art or in global politics, the ends can justify the means.
REVIEWS:

"Roadkill Confidential, a new work by Sheila Callaghan, is intriguing to watch... it's a sick sitcom, it's a thriller, it's a parody, it's a commentary on the art world, it's a -- and this one's borrowed from the script's title page -- 'noir-ish meditation on brutality.'"

 The New York Times

"This multi-media spectacle...ransacks familiar pop-cultural genre conventions to deliver a smart and stylish cautionary tale of an artist who gets caught up in the savagery of her own art."

 Variety

"Sheila Callaghan, like many playwrights, operates best when she's angry... dry her out with a nice, warming rage, and her work cackles... Callaghan parodies brilliantly..."

 Time Out New York

Premiere Production: Roadkill Confidential was first presented by Clubbed Thumb at 3LD in New York City in September 2010. It was directed by Kip Fagan.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Features Teens

TREVOR - female, mid 30's, furtive and glamorous
WILLIAM / TV ANNOUNCER / DOCTOR - male, mid-late 40's, balding, dorky, well-meaning
RANDY / FRIZZY HAIRED MAN - male, 14, wiry and manic
MELANIE - female, late 20's-early 30's, bubbly and shrill
FBI MAN - male, 30's-40's, cool, level, mysterious, jaded.

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A possibly rogue g-man stalks a stalled-out artist with a suspicious affinity for accident victims. Traps are set, traps are sprung, and everyone gets caught.  Roadkill Confidential tackles, with style, humor and high theatricality, mediated violence and the numbness it produces, and, whether in art or in global politics, the ends can justify the means.

$24.95

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