Overview
A sofa in a darkened room. In this very funny ten minute play, Minnie
sits in a darkened room, her face illuminated by the eerie glow of snow
on an unseen downstage television set, surrounded by junk assembled by
her philandering artist husband, creating in her head a bizarre
imaginary film, a combination of many old black and white movies with
Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and believes that she
herself is the film's heroine, Ida Lupino. Minnie's sisters, Sherry and
Caitlin, attempting to understand the reasons for Minnie's apparent
nervous breakdown, are pulled into her demented old imaginary movie, and
discover what finally pushed her over the edge. A densely packed and
funny ten minutes or so of nostalgic movie lunacy and betrayal. Includes
dramaturgical note. In Banana Man & Other Plays.