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Lions

  • Vince Melocchi
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy
  • 9M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573696312

...an all-around touching portrait of Middle America, a reminder that 'real Americans' need not be so reductively characterized as Joe the Plumber.

L.A. Weekly

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
It's the 2007 NFL season and the Detroit Lions are on a winning streak — unfortunately out of work steelworker John Waite is not. With humor and humanity, playwright Vince Melocchi offers a glimpse into The Tenth Ward Club, where the patrons place their hopes on their team, and attempt to escape the creeping demise of their city and of their way of life.
REVIEWS:


[Lions] is a drama that speaks directly to our country's current state of affairs, which is to say it's a play about unemployment, hardship and economic collapse. If that sounds like a depressing thematic lineup, the play itself is far from being a downer. 'Lions' takes an unsentimental look at a ravaged cross-section of present-day Detroit and tells a story of compassion in a cold climate....Melocchi's play is a smart, humanistic...observation of working-class survivalism.

Los Angeles Times

Lions is about hope...about the endurance of a middle class getting squeezed...finding life amid the lifeless

Detroit Free Press
Premiere Production: Lions premiered on October 24, 2008 at the Pacific Resident Theatre, Venice, CA.

Characters

  • Casting: 9M, 3F
  • Casting Notes: The same actor can play both Chicago and Lennie.

  • JOHN "SPOOK" WAITE - Late forties, an unemployed factory worker.
    LEON "BISCUIT" CROISSANT - African-American. Late forties, works for the Detroit morgue.
    ANDY GUERALL - Early thirties. Bartender at The 10th Ward Club.
    BILL "HOUSEPIE" FOLINO - Late fifties.
    CURTIS SAWYER - African-American. Late twenties. Grocery store bagger.
    BETH WAITE - John's wife. Mid forties.
    ARTIE PIRO - Twenty-four, childhood friend of John Waite. Appears only in memory.
    GAIL FINCH - Mid forties. Waitress at the local diner.
    LARRY GERBER - Late forties, local pizza shop owner.
    REVEREND RUSSELL STUVANTS - African-American. Early fifties, a man of the cloth.
    MABEL JOHNSON - African-American. Late-fifties. A job placement counselor.
    JERRY "LENNIE" LENHART - Bartender at The 10th ward club.
    MAN (aka CHICAGO) - A Chicago Bears fan.

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    It's the 2007 NFL season and the Detroit Lions are on a winning streak — unfortunately out of work steelworker John Waite is not. With humor and humanity, playwright Vince Melocchi offers a glimpse into The Tenth Ward Club, where the patrons place their hopes on their team, and attempt to escape the creeping demise of their city and of their way of life

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