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Cartoon (Yockey)

  • Steve Yockey
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 5M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573663833

Fast-paced, funny, and drenched in pop culture. If you see only one play about cartoon characters killing each other this year, make it this one.

East Bay Express

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set, Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Opportunity for Spectacle
  • Cautions: Smoking, Gun Shots, Drugs, Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Join the exploits of a band of mismatched cartoon stereotypes on a wild ride through this animated world, Presented in the style of a Commedia dell’Arte scenario gone berserk, Cartoon is a devilishly violent social commentary that explores the rapid coalescence of media, politics and consumer giants. 

A young, idealistic upstart named Trouble steals the giant hammer that Esther, the bratty dictator, uses to maintain a monotonous but peaceful order. Chaos ensues. Bombs explode. Puppets are set free. Anime girls fight. And as the bodies pile up, the violence begins to creep off the stage and into the audience. There’s nothing like a punch in the face to really get the blood moving.
REVIEWS:

Yockey's piece plays like an Eastern European communist-era political comedy, with farce and cruelty artfully intermingled to create horrifying situations... whose frequent leaps from cartoony cuteness to over-the-top violence are both shocking and hilarious.

LA Weekly

The play slowly reveals itself as being more than just a wacky comedy about violence in the media... it speaks to a deeper, darker truth about people's ability to turn on one another without visualizing the cost of that betrayal. It is in these moments that Cartoon shines.

TheatreForum Magazine

Cartoon poses profound questions with every laugh... it will leave you thinking and discussing the play for the remainder of the evening.

Backstage

At its core, Cartoon is a response to society, to violence, to corrupt leadership, and to twisted romance...

TheatreForum Magazine

Fast-paced, funny, and drenched in pop culture. If you see only one play about cartoon characters killing each other this year, make it this one.

East Bay Express

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast, Room for Extras, Cross gender casting, Drag performance, Color blind casting

TROUBLE - A cute, mischievous young man.
ESTHER - A bossy little girl with an old-fashioned microphone, a bad temper and a big imagination.
WINSTON PUPPET - A puppet with strings.
SUITOR - A hopeful boy clown.
DAMSEL - A bashful girl clown.
YUMI - A mischievous Anime school girl.
AKANE - A mischievous Anime school girl.
ROCKSTAR - A heartthrob giant stuffed animal with imposing claws.
VOLUNTEER - A hapless volunteer pulled from the audience.

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Join the exploits of a band of mismatched cartoon stereotypes on a wild ride through this animated world, Presented in the style of a Commedia dell’Arte scenario gone berserk, Cartoon is a devilishly violent social commentary that explores the rapid coalescence of media, politics and consumer giants. A young, idealistic upstart named Trouble steals the giant hammer that Esther, the bratty dictator, uses to maintain a monotonous but peaceful order. Chaos ensues. Bombs explode. Puppets are set free. Anime girls fight. And as the bodies pile up, the violence begins to creep off the stage and into the audience. There’s nothing like a punch in the face to really get the blood moving.

$24.95

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