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Win With Wheeler
Lee Kalcheim
Something Fishy
by Marcia Kash, Douglas E. Hughes
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Synopsis
In this timely political farce, presidential candidate Raymond Bream comes back to his hometown of Port Pilchard to make a major announcement that will likely win him the election.
Meanwhile, the incumbent, President Weever, has sent a couple of henchmen to town to prevent Bream from making his speech – by any means necessary.
The showdown takes place on the stage of the local community center where an amateur theatre troupe is about to open their latest production, The Vicar’s Knickers .
As the world of politics encounters its natural cousin – the world of farce – everyone is forced to don disguises and take on numerous roles, and suddenly no one is who they appear to be.
Will Bream get to the podium to make his speech, or will the president’s hatchet men win the day?
Press Reviews
"A great catch!... It skewers politics, politicians, the media, environmental and economic issues, and even community theatre itself."
— The Simcoe Reformer
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| ACTOR 1 |
| RAYMOND BREAM Mid-40s to mid-50s; a successful career politician running for office; handsome and charismatic. |
| ROLAND BREAM Raymond’s identical twin brother; an actor in the Port Pilchard Players (PPP); a shaggy, unkempt but likeable loser. |
| DR. ZINGEL 60ish; a stereotypical German scientist in a lab coat and Einstein hair. |
| ACTOR 2 |
| LORENA Late 30s; Raymond’s campaign manager; attractive, Puerto Rican, speaks English fluently but with a pronounced accent. |
| MOLLY 30s; stage manager for the PPP; quintessential stage manager type: overworked and undervalued, but good at her job. |
| JUDY 40ish; one of the PPP actors; opinionated, very full of herself, has an air of superiority about her. |
| ACTOR 3 |
| PENELOPE 50s; a Southern belle and artistic director of the PPP; warm, outgoing, a mother hen. |
| MANDY Older than Penelope but trying desperately to look 25 years younger; an actor in the company; vain, voluptuous, oversexed. |
| WEEVER 50 to 60; an unscrupulous, power-hungry, buttoned-up politician and Bream’s opponent in the election. |
| ACTOR 4 |
| GILL Late 40s to 50s; Weever’s hatchet man, a hard-boiled, old-school backroom political operative. |
| COLIN 50s; an affable, enthusiastic actor in the PPP. |
| ACTOR 5 |
| SHARKEY 30s; Gill’s partner in crime, new to the political game but an avid pupil. |
| WHITING Late 20s; cub reporter for a right-wing news website, tenacious, ambitious, cynical. |
| CLARK 30s; another PPP stalwart; a mild-mannered, good-natured, loyal friend of Colin’s. |
Publication
Something Fishy is a comedy play written by Marcia Kash and published by Samuel French .
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Fee: Minimum Fee: $110 per performance
Restrictions: Major Markets Plus (US) / Standard Plus Add'l Postcodes (UK)
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