Four-Hour Casanova E-Book

Tony Broadwick

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

There are three types of people in the movie business. Those that talk about doing great things; those that actually do great things; and there’s the third kind that finds faults in the great works of others - the critics.

A light-hearted fantasy about some serious issues such as love, marriage, infidelity, abortion,  and other such stuff that power can bring us, and money can buy for us.

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Tony Broadwick

Four-Hour Casanova

A pharmaceutical comedy in three acts

BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Title Page

Four-Hour Casanova

A pharmaceutical comedy in three acts

     by

Tony Broadwick

Copyright

All characters and events in these plays are imaginary. Any resemblance to any person dead or living is purely coincidental.

                       Copyright © 2018 Tony Broadwick

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Four-Hour Casanove

Four-Hour Casanova

A pharmaceutical comedy in three acts

Cast of Characters

Cast of characters in order of appearance

RUBEN ZUCKERMAN --- A film producer in his late fifties, early sixties

EMILIO --- A young bellhop at a five-star hotel in the theater district in London

INDIA --- Ex-wife, 20 years his junior

RAIN FAIRWEATHER --- A young doctor at the hotel

ELIZABETH MCCORMICK --- An old flame – (Ruben thinks she’s the one that got away)

NORMA DESMOND --- A young and upcoming actress on the London theater scene

Act I

ACT I.

The Curtain goes up on the living-room area of a penthouse suite in a five-star hotel in the Strand area - the theatre district in London. The Big Ben strikes one.

The door opens andEMILIO– the hotel bellhop, a handsome, dark-haired, well-built Latin male, in a smartly fitted uniform, enters carrying two oversize, Louis Vuitton, cases. Emilio holds the door open for RUBEN. Ruben is a man in his late fifties or early sixties. He is desperately fighting aging. He is dressed as a young man, his hair is long, and the grey is skillfully concealed under a dark brown wig. He displays an out-of-season tan. His sunglasses are Ray-Ban, his three-piece suit is by Armani, his shirt by Perry Ellis, and his shoes are Gucci. A pen in his pocket tells us that it is an Omas; his shiny wristwatch is a bold, golden Breitling Bentley. He needs bifocals but refuses to wear glasses. He reminds us of Woody Allen trying to pass for Alec Baldwin. He looks around the room looking for something to criticize. Not finding anything, he walks to the window, looks out, and turns toEmilio.)

RUBEN: Would it have killed them to put a fruit basket in the room?

(Emilio picks up a fruit basket from a table that Ruben had not noticed.)

EMILIO: Here, sir. Would you care for some?

RUBEN: Never mind that. (pause) Does it ever stop raining in this town?

EMILIO: This is unusual for this time of the year.

RUBEN: So you say.

EMILIO: Shall I put these in the bedroom, sir?

RUBEN: (walks to the door leading to the bedroom) Yes, move the ammunition to the battlefield. This is not a king-size bed!