Mark My Worms
Mason has been cast in a newly-discovered, never-before-seen play by the world-class absurdist LaSalle Montclare. But the play must be performed exactly as written. And Montclare, who worked on a typewriter when there was no Spell Check, was a lousy typist. This is why the play opens with Mason holding his costar at gunpoint and having to say, “I’ve got a bun? Come out or I’ll hoot.”
Characters
JOHN ……A theater director… age unimportant but probably at least 40.
MASON…Age actor… age unimportant, but should be about the same age as John.
GLORIA…Age actress …age unimportant, but should be about the same age as Mason and John
Playwright:
Cary resides in San Francisco USA. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and a four-time contributor to Applause Books’ Best American Short Plays series (Small Things; House of the Holy Moment; Come Again, Another Day; Irish Stew). Cary Pepper has had work presented throughout the United States and internationally. Among his full-length plays, How It Works won the 2012 Ashland New Plays Festival and Cufflinked was a semifinalist for the 2014 festival. Among his one-act plays, The Walrus Said won the Religious Arts Guild Playwriting Competition; Small Things won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival 2006 One Act Play Contest; Party Favors won the 2016 Goshen Peace Play Contest. Most recently How’s Bruno? marked Cary’s second appearance in the LaBute New Theater Festival, Death Does Larry became his second production by Drip Action Theatre Trail in their Arundel Festival (UK) presentation, and Crossed was named a winner in Drury University’s 2019 One-Act Play Competition.