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Crossing Clayton
A Two Act Comedy in Four Psychic Visits Author(s):
Mike Kaiman
Jim Hamilton has a problem. How can he balance starting off his career in journalism, asking his long-standing girlfriend for her hand in marriage and remembering the double coupon for Gold Bond foot powder on the kitchen table before he goes to the grocery store? Not to mention Jim has two additional headaches—his dead grandparents.
Ed Green has a problem. He is deathly afraid that his grandson is growing up to be a complete wuss and that he alone must right the error of his descendant’s ways before he makes the fatal mistake of entering into Ed’s personal hell…marriage. Ed also is in desperate need of Gold Bond foot powder.
Ethel Green has a problem. The house is a mess. She needs to vacuum. And dust. And wash the bed linens. And scrub the bathtub. Ethel always wants the best for her grandson but is fearful that he’ll end up in the poorhouse if Jim doesn’t take advantage of all the coupons she clips for him.
Emily McCord has a problem. She has waited patiently for three years for the love of her life to propose marriage…to no avail. She’s also beginning to wonder why there are so many coupons in a house only inhabited by a single guy in his mid-twenties.
The psychics that show up at Jim’s front door have a problem too. How can they swindle Jim out of as much money as possible in a con to get rid of Jim’s dead grandparents?
In this comedy about old family and young love Jim Hamilton finds himself slowly losing his sanity while dealing with his grandparents who died and left him their house all the while trying to maintain as normal a relationship with his girlfriend as possible. Push finally comes to shove and Jim decides that his girlfriend is more important to him than Grandma and Grandpa and chooses to hire a series of psychotic psychics to remove his problem from his home. In fact, they only add to Jim’s growing pile of problems. As he begins to realize that events in his life are spiraling out of his control Jim is forced to make a fateful choice. However, as in any case when dealing with family members and matters of the heart, the situation is more complex than what Jim had bargained. Family, friends, relationships and relatives—these are the ties that bind us and Jim in this piece. Welcome to Crossing Clayton.
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| Genre(s): | Comedy
| | Time Period(s): | Post-Modern 1990 - present
| | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | 100 minutes | | Acts: | 2 | | Set Complexity: | Average | | Set Information: | One Set Furnished Living Room | | Year First Published: | 2002 | | Total Characters: | 5 | | Male Characters: | 3 | | Female Characters: | 2 | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | 5 | | Maximum Cast: | 5 | | Cost: | Contact Author at writerguy@mikekaiman.com
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Self Published by the Thoreau Up Co. & Mike Kaiman
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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