Roadkill Confidential
by Sheila Callaghan

Name: Roadkill Confidential
Brand: Sheila Callaghan
SKU: 9780573699238
Rating: 3.08 (13 reviews)

Roadkill Confidential Book Cover — Roadkill Confidential Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

75 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

A possibly rogue g-man stalks a stalled-out artist with a suspicious affinity for accident victims.

Traps are set, traps are sprung, and everyone gets caught.

Roadkill Confidential tackles, with style, humor and high theatricality, mediated violence and the numbness it produces, and, whether in art or in global politics, the ends can justify the means.

Press Reviews

"Roadkill Confidential, a new work by Sheila Callaghan, is intriguing to watch...it's a sick sitcom, it's a thriller, it's a parody, it's a commentary on the art world, it's a - this one's borrowed from the script's title page - 'noir-ish meditation on brutality.'"
— The New York Times

"This multi-media spectacle...ransacks familiar pop-cultural genre conventions to deliver a smart and stylish cautionary tale of an artist who gets caught up in the savagery of her own art."
— Variety

"Sheila Callaghan, like many playwrights, operates best when she's angry...dry her out with a nice, warming rage, and her work crackles...Callaghan parodies brilliantly..."
— Time Out New York

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
William / Tv Announcer / Doctor male, mid-late 40’s, balding, dorky, well-meaning	male	—	male, mid-late 40’s, balding, dorky, well-meaning
Randy / Frizzy Haired Man male, 14, wiry and manic	male	—	male, 14, wiry and manic
Melanie female, late 20’s-early 30’s, bubbly and shrill	female	—	female, late 20’s-early 30’s, bubbly and shrill
Fbi Man male, 30’s-40’s, cool, level, mysterious, jaded	male	—	male, 30’s-40’s, cool, level, mysterious, jaded
Trevor female, mid 30’s, furtive and glamorous	female	—	female, mid 30’s, furtive and glamorous