The Adjustment
by Albert Bermel

Name: The Adjustment
Brand: Albert Bermel
SKU: 9780881270051
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

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One Act Bare Stage/Simple Set Comedy

Synopsis

Belinda Groat, an attractive widow who has had a flood in her basement, is determined to receive adequate compensation.

When the adjuster arrives, she's busily adding to the damage and touching up the debris.

But this particular insurance man, Mr. Fester, is hard to convince.

And he has a way of asking unanswerable questions.

Mr. Fester makes Belinda uneasy, then terrified, because she realizes she's going to get more compensation than she bargained for.

Performed by amateur and professional groups in the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany and at the Spoleto Festival.

Press Reviews

"An expert piece of comic writing.... A tightly packed duologue rings the changes on three aspects of American conformity-- salesmanship, evangelism, and physical culture. All are concerned ... with salvation-- so what is more natural than to fuse them together? Mr. Bermel does so with the all too plausible invention of a New York spiritual gymnasium.... Taut, witty, and without a single dead line.... Extracts its comedy as much from physical action as from dialogue."
— London Times