Flemming (An American Thriller)
- Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
- 5M, 3F
- ISBN: 9780573662485
Bored by his privileged but mundane life, Henry Flemming sells his lucrative brokerage firm to become a detective.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dark Comedy
- 90 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Cautions: Gun Shots
- Performance Group:
- Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Outdoor, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
On his very first case, and to the horror of his wife, Karen, and his two crazy neighbors, Suzy and Stan, the Flemming living room begins to fill up with dead bodies. Karen is further annoyed when one of them turns out to be her father. Even though Henry keeps showing up at home every day more disheveled and beaten up, he couldn't be happier. Henry is convinced he's found his life's work and Westport, Connecticut is safer for it.
The play is a spoof of the film noir thrillers from the 1940's and 50's.
Characters
- Casting: 5M, 3F
- Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
KAREN FLEMMING - Henry's wife. In her late thirties.
STAN SPENCER - The Flemming's pain-in-the-neck neighbour. Mid-forties.
SUZY SPENCER - Stan's long suffering wife. Mid-thirties.
WALTER LARSEN - Karen's father. In his mid-sixties.
LIEUTENANT DAVIS - A plainclothes cop. In his late-thirties.
MISS HAVENHURST - A sweet young thing who's had a tough life. Late-twenties.
VITO MARDIGIAN - A tough, threatening hoodlum. In his late thirties.
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