One Man's Vision (Collection)

One Man's Vision (Collection)

One Man's Vision (Collection)

One Man's Vision (Collection)

Overview

This collection includes six one-act plays:

Designated Driver: (2f) A young lady plays good Samaritan by giving a ride home to a drunken stranger – a rambling, embittered woman who unfortunately can’t remember where she lives. 

Friendly Fire: (2m, 2f) Two Italian-American mobsters, Carmine and Johnny, find themselves stuck in Limbo after a bombing gone wrong; as they wait to find out their ultimate destinations, they learn some surprising truths about each other.

One Man’s Vision: (2m) A young movie director finds the ideal producer, a money man who refuses to interfere in any way with his personal vision. But as the shoot proceeds, the producer’s cheerful agreeableness slowly drives the director crazy.

Tangled Web: (2m, 2f) In a coffee shop, Ruth, a single New Yorker, waits to meet an Internet date. Complications ensue when another, more beautiful woman with the same name arrives at the same time to meet the same man.

Tree World: (2m, 1f) In the not-so-distant future, when nuclear options have obliterated all the authentic foliage, a suburban couple goes shopping at Tree World.

Twenty Years Ago: (2m, 1f) When Joan accompanies her husband to his high-school reunion, she is accosted by a strange man who insists that she is someone else.

Authors

Frederick Stroppel

Frederick Stroppel began writing for the theatre back in the 1980s; his first full-length play, The Price of Tea, was produced in NYC in 1986 at the Courtyard Playhouse in Greenwich Village. He became resident playwright of the Courtyard Players, and two years later, his play ...

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