Karlaboy
by Steven Peros

Name: Karlaboy
Brand: Steven Peros
SKU: 9780573697241
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

120 mins 1990s Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Mystery Comedy

Synopsis

Drama / Characters: 6m, 2f Biographer Bill Lauder has penned a ruthless tell-all about Karla Daven, a long dead legendary 1950's starlet.

As a result, he is summoned in the middle of the night to the dilapidated mansion of Karla's celebrity husband, Harold Bachman, a reclusive director who makes the outlandish claim that Karla's ghost has threatened to kill him this very night unless Bill calls off the publication of his tawdry book of lies.

What follows is an intense evening where memory wrestles with myth in order to find the truth.

As Harold gets deeper into exposing Bill's lies about Karla, he is forced to confront the lies he's told himself - lies about himself as a filmmaker, a husband, and as a man.

Harold must not only save himself from Karla's ghost, but from the ghosts of an unrealized life.

* WINNER * 1994 Drama-Logue Critics Award Outstanding Achievement in Writing Steven Peros' intriguing play is a well wrought tale of love and loss, set against the sweeping background of the golden era of Hollywood ...while the characters are fictional, they take on a life of their own and end up eerily reminiscent and real ...Karlaboy could rightly take its place among the more innovative and involving productions currently on the Los Angeles theatre scene.

- Elias Stimac, Drama-Logue A wonderful experience ...what rings through this totally fascinating play is the brilliant dialogue.

Steven Peros has an ear for dialogue of this type - highly intelligent, witty and on the mark.

You'll see many a show before you come across talk this stimulating.

- Maurice Keller, The Tolucan

Themes Arts & Entertainment - Drama

Press Reviews

"Steven Peros' intriguing play is a well wrought tale of love and loss, set against the sweeping background of the golden era of Hollywood... while the characters are fictional, they take on a life of their own and end up eerily reminiscent and real...Karlaboy could rightly take its place among the more innovative and involving productions currently on the Los Angeles theatre scene" - Drama-Logue"A wonderful experience...What rings through this fascinating play is the brilliant dialogue. Steven Peros has an ear for dialogue of this type - highly intelligent, witty and on the mark. You'll see many a show before you come across talk this stimulating."
— The Tolucan

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Karla Daven 20s; a lovely actress with star quality. Karla should not be costumed or made-up to recall any one specific famous movie star.	female	20s	20s; a lovely actress with star quality. Karla should not be costumed or made-up to recall any one specific famous movie star.
Bill Lauder 30s; a journalist.	—	30s	30s; a journalist.
Tony 20s-30s; a good-looking movie star-in-training.	—	20s	20s-30s; a good-looking movie star-in-training.
Studio Boss 40s-60s; head of the unnamed major studio to which Harold and Karla are under contract.	—	40s	40s-60s; head of the unnamed major studio to which Harold and Karla are under contract.
Ensemble Of Three Made up of 2 men and 1 woman. The Ensemble plays the following roles: First Male Voice, Second Male Voice, Third Male Voice, Assistant, Olga, Olga’s Partners, Super Mogul, Party Guests, Yes Man #1, Yes Man #2, Gowned Actress, Reporter #1, Reporter #2, Reporter #3, Sydney Bachman, Bill’s Agent.	female	—	Made up of 2 men and 1 woman. The Ensemble plays the following roles: First Male Voice, Second Male Voice, Third Male Voice, Assistant, Olga, Olga’s Partners, Super Mogul, Party Guests, Yes Man #1, Yes Man #2, Gowned Actress, Reporter #1, Reporter #2, Reporter #3, Sydney Bachman, Bill’s Agent.
Harold Bachman 65; a movie director and screenwriter, retired for over 35 years. In recall, he is in his 20s. In some productions, the same actor has played both roles, ala Salieri in Amadeus.	male	20s	65; a movie director and screenwriter, retired for over 35 years. In recall, he is in his 20s. In some productions, the same actor has played both roles, ala Salieri in Amadeus.