In this dark comedy, the overbearing owner of a Fortune 500 company visits the home of a former employee---with a few surprises. FINALIST - 2005 Theatre Publicus Prize for Dramatic Literature Dramatica Press plays are designed to enhance readability of the stageplay format by creating a new ergonomic layout and using color to easily differentiate between character names, dialogue, parentheticals, and stage directions. Characters TOM MORGAN - Father. Hard worker. Unfortunately the compensation for all this work has not been commensurate with the effort. To add injury to insult, he was recently downsized by the Glasgow Corporation about 7 weeks ago. ALATHEA MORGAN - His wife. Housewife. Strong, but knows when to step back and let Tom feel useful. LESLIE MORGAN - Their daughter of 17 years. A pregnancy waiting to happen. ANDY MORGAN - Their son of 20 years. Probably involved with drugs. Wears a T-shirt that proudly reads "Wiener Takes Fall". SHELDON GLASGOW - The overbearing owner and chairman of the Glasgow Corporation, a Fortune 500 Company. A portly man who enjoys the best things in life, because he can afford them.
Author Biography:
Educated at Cambridge University, Westminster College, and the University of Utah, Jeffrey Gold was a member of the Playwright's Group for more than three seasons, through the auspices of the Salt Lake Acting Company (SLAC) under dramaturg Mike Dorrell (BBC's Soldier, Soldier, Pictures of a Floating World) and playwright-in-residence Julie Jensen (Two-Headed, Last Lists of My Mad Mother, Wait!). His plays IN THE PURSUIT OF SVETLA, HORST AND GRABEN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE UNFINISHED MAN, FITCH TODD, DEDEKIND, HORST AND GRABEN AT THE CHATEAU GODOT, PERCOLATION THEORY and CANDYCANE HURRICANE have garnered numerous awards, readings, and productions, including the 2002 CrossCurrents Cultural Five and Dime Playwriting Competition, 2003 Boca Raton Theatre Guild Short Play Reading Festival, Finalist - 2003 Ten by Ten in the Triangle, 2003 Shorts in Winter Playwriting Festival, 2003 Experiments In Ink V Playwriting Competition, 2004 Women in Theatre (WIT) Play Reading Series, 2004 New Voices/New Words Playwriting Contest, 2004 Moondance International Film Festival Stageplay Competition, 2005 Moondance International Film Festival Seahorse Award, Finalist - 2005 Theatre Publicus Prize for Dramatic Literature, and more. Jeffrey Gold was a Best of State Medal Winner in Playwriting in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
