Synopsis
this collection contains six one-acts: BONE THE SPEED, CARWASH, CONRAD ON THE VINE, ETHIOPIA, THE MAN WHO ATE EINSTEIN'S BRAIN, & PRECISION MACHINES.
Louis Phillips is one the most inventive and imaginative playwrights in the United States: BONE THE SPEED.
A spoof about the ultimate snake-pit: Hollywood.
With a nod to David Mamet's SPEED-THE-PLOW, and any number of other works on that subject.
2 M, 1 F. CARWASH.
A comic surrealistic nightmare when a man's car disappears at the carwash.
2 M, 1 F. CONRAD ON THE VINE.
Imagine Joseph Conrad alive today and being interviewed on a television talk-show.
3 M, 1 F. ETHIOPIA.
A totalitarian future where food is so scarce that people pay to watch others eat.
Cast: 2 M, 1 F (nuclear family), plus a waiter.
THE MAN WHO ATE EINSTEIN'S BRAIN.
The title of this play says it all.
2 M, 1 F. PRECISION MACHINES.
Inanimate objects take on a life of their own.
1 M, 1 F.
