Tell-Tale
by Jeffrey Hatcher

Name: Tell-Tale
Brand: Jeffrey Hatcher
SKU: 9780822214946
Rating: 3.87 (35 reviews)

Off-Broadway

Highlights

Female

Male

90 minsPresent DayBare Stage/Simple SetComedy

Synopsis

Part of volume, Three Viewings .

THE STORY: TELL-TALE is the story of Emil, the mild-mannered undertaker whose unspoken passion for a local real-estate woman who comes to all his funerals leads him to commit crimes and plot a way to confess his true feelings before time—and bodies—run out.

Press Reviews

"Hatcher's three brief, intermissionless playlets have the merits and liabilities of that style of American short-story writing which started with O. Henry and, from the careful set-up to the ironic payoff, has never really ended."
— New York Post

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
EMIL A middle-aged man in a conservative suit	male	—	A middle-aged man in a conservative suit
MAC A woman in her 30s or 40s dressing in black and waring many sparkling rings	female	30s	A woman in her 30s or 40s dressing in black and waring many sparkling rings
VIRGINIA A woman in her late 50s or 60s with a cigarette and a lighter	female	50s	A woman in her late 50s or 60s with a cigarette and a lighter