Reckless
by Craig Lucas

Name: Reckless
Brand: Craig Lucas
SKU: 9780822209379
Rating: 3.69 (195 reviews)

Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

120 minsPresent DayReduced Casting (Doubling Possible)Unit Set/Multiple SettingsContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesAmerican Mystery Comedy

Synopsis

THE STORY: At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her, and she must flee for her life--which she does by scrambling out the kitchen window and into the snowy night.

She meets and joins u

Press Reviews

"With Reckless Mr. Lucas has given us a bittersweet Christmas fable for our time. It’s a Wonderful Life as it might be reimagined for a bruising contemporary America in which homelessness may be a pervasive spiritual condition rather than a sociological crisis. Reckless has a simple emotional pull akin to that of a Crosby ballad born of the lonely World War II home front, it yanks us through every conceivable absurdist hoop, fracturing narrative, language and characterization on the way to its rending destination."
— The New York Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
RACHEL TOM LLOYD POOTY ROY TRISH FIRST DOCTOR TIM TIMKO SECOND DOCTOR THIRD DOCTOR FOURTH DOCTOR FIFTH DOCTOR FIRST DERELICT SECOND DERELICT SIXTH DOCTOR TALK SHOW HOST SUE MAN IN SKI MASK WOMAN PATIENT RECEPTIONIST TOM JUNIOR VOICES OF VARIOUS ANNOUNCERS AND NEWSCASTERS Reckless can be performed with as few as seven actors. TOM, TOM JUNIOR and the MAN IN SKI MASK are doubled, as are the FIRST through SIXTH DOCTORS.	male	—	Reckless can be performed with as few as seven actors. TOM, TOM JUNIOR and the MAN IN SKI MASK are doubled, as are the FIRST through SIXTH DOCTORS.