Desire – Six One-act Plays
by Elizabeth Egloff

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Synopsis

ATTACK OF THE GIANT TENT WORMS.

Billy and Clara are nearing the end of their summer vacation on Cape Cod, as their cottage is being devoured by billions of tent-worms.

Worse, Billy has just gotten word from his oncologist that there are no more treatment options for his brain cancer.

A darkly humorous exploration of which is more terrifying: bugs or death?

(1 man, 1 woman.) DESIRE QUENCHED BY TOUCH.

In 1950s New Orleans, a black masseur must account for the disappearance of his favorite white customer.

People don’t just vanish inside massage parlors… (3 men.) THE FIELD OF BLUE CHILDREN.

Everything in Layley’s life is going according to plan.

She belongs to the best sorority at her university and has a devoted boyfriend who could easily become a devoted husband.

But Layley suspects that there is more to life than stifling conformity.

So she signs up for a poetry class in the hopes of expressing herself.

There she meets Dylan, a sensitive poet with whom she enjoys a night of passion that opens up a truly revolutionary prospect: living a life of her own.

(3 men, 4 women.) ORIFLAMME.

Oriflamme (noun): A red or scarlet banner; a knight’s standard; a rallying principle…Sickly Anna Kimball, on her final day, reaches out for, and becomes, all of these.

(1 man, 1 woman.) YOU LIED TO ME ABOUT CENTRALIA.

Jim, the Gentleman Caller, leaves the Wingfields’ disastrous dinner party to meet his fiancée Betty’s train.

The evening won’t turn out the way either of them expected.

(1 man, 1 woman.) THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN A VIOLIN CASE AND A COFFIN.

Tom and his sister Roe’s childhood comes to a painful end when Richard Miles, who moves in light, arrives in town with his violin in a case.

(2 men, 4 women.)

Themes

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 7 total roles, 4 female and 3 male roles.

Publication

Year Published
2018
ISBN 10
0822236737
ISBN 13
9780822236733
Binding
Paperback
Edition
1
Print Length
97 pages
Place Published
New York]
Language
English
LCC
PS626 .D47 2017
DCC
812/.04108
Print
Desire – Six One-act Plays is a American adaptation play written by and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York], 2018. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780822236733 and an ISBN-10 of 0822236737.

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