Toe Tag #47: One Act Play

ISBN: 1478141220

Author: Sugarek, Trisha

Condition: New

Product Description A whore tells the audience how she got dead. This beautiful, poignant monologue for a woman is edgy, harsh and tender. How does a stripper, sometimes prostitute end up dead, thrown from a car like so much garbage? A great audition piece or short, one act for a strong character actor. 1f. This script is part of a collection called 'Short N'Small'. That is a short one act play with a small cast. No sets, no costumes. Review I saw this one act on stage at TRG in San Antonio two years ago. It knocked my socks off.Picture this:  the curtain goes up, the audience is looking at a morgue slab with a body under a sheet. A foot sticks out with a toe tag on one toe. The body rises, swings her legs off the table and tells the audience how she died. Very riveting, so powerful!Sugarek's short plays are an astonishing work that finds a way to say so much with so little, and turns the bare stage into every young man and woman's living room. A perpetual battle ground for issues of trust and mistrust, laughter and misery, overwhelming loss and astounding triumph.     --BookReview.comThe playwright has writtentwenty-seven (and counting) short plays for teens and the classroom.  Subjects impacting the teens of today. Fromdivorce to cutting, from running away to date violence, from driving and texting,from teen sex to bullying.  A long list of "G"rated 10 minute plays for the classroom. No props, no sets, no costumes. Justopen dialogue.~~ Midwest Book Review From the Author This is part of a series of short plays call the "ShortN'Small" collection.Visit the author's web site to view all of her scripts, children's books, children's plays, andfiction. writeratplay.com From the Back Cover Fiction by this author:  "WILD VIOLETS"  It's the roaring twenties in San Francisco, a decade famous for hot jazz and bath tub gin.   Violet (The Guyer Girls) has grown into a beautiful woman with children of her own.  She has left her small home town in the Pacific Northwest to pursue a successful basketball career.  With her earnings, she purchased a bar and grill.   She is a 'flapper' in every sense of the word; working all day and dancing all night. While her teenage daughter raises her seven year old son, Violet is out on the town with her latest man de'jour. Dressed in her signature red dress, she is the toast of the town and owner of a speakeasy where she hosts the cream of San Francisco's society, city politicians, bishops, and Hollywood celebrities. and:  "Women Outside the Walls"     Alma, Kitty and Hattie have one thing in common. The men they love are in prison.  Wives visit their men behind bars every day and wonder how their lives brought them to this place.     This story focuses on three of these women.  Alma is an exotic dancer who seems, at first glance, to be a bit of a nit-wit. But on closer inspection she has a street-smart wisdom and humor.  Hattie is a hard working African American with four children who is trying to keep her family together.  Then there is Kitty, a wealthy socialite, who in spite of the shame and embarrassment of visiting a prison where her husband refuses to see her, doggedly visits every week. About the Author Trisha Sugarek has enjoyed a twentyyear career writing stage plays, fiction, children's books and poetry. Inaddition to over 40 stage plays, she expanded her body of work to include tennovels, of which seven are a series of true crime mysteries and four children'sbooks. She wrote three general fiction novels based upon her mother's sisters. Shehas written a collection of ten minute plays for the classroom.  Most recently she created four journal/handbooks(instructional) for writers. Her active blogencourages and helps other writers.  Trishalives in Savannah, Georgia with a ridgeback hound, Miss Molly and her littlesister, Gracie, and their two cats,Fiona and Barcode. All were rescued and adopted by Trisha.