The Phantom of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet – Everyone’s a critic!
After being drugged playwright Morgan Brown and theatre critic Scarlet Osgood wake up tied together back to back on stage at the abandoned Chelsea Theatre. Leo a failed playwright and Scarlet’s ex-husband has brought Scarlet and Morgan there to prove that his most recent play The Phantom of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet is better than anything Morgan has ever written and worthy of Scarlet’s critical praise. Desperate to win back his wife and get his play produced Leo is prepared to kill – or so he says – to get what he wants.
One Act Comedy – 2M, 1 W, single set, 50 minutes
MORGAN: You said, “The playwright’s heavy-handed approach and blatant preaching made the play humourless and tedious.” You said, “Too often playwrights like Mr. Brown get up on their soapbox and expound on issues and ideas forgetting that theatre requires a story not just a discussion of the subject.” You said, “My suggestion to Mr. Brown is that in future instead of writing a play, to voice his opinions, he would save us all an agonizing evening at the theatre by simply writing a blog.”
SCARLET: Ah ha! So, you do read reviews.
CAST of CHARACTERS
Scarlet Osgood – the critic
Morgan Brown – the playwright
Leo Green – the phantom
Characters may be any ethnicity.
SETTING
The abandoned Chelsea Theatre
TIME
7:45 pm – Monday
