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Alcohol and Muscle

 

I just submitted my play, Alcohol and Muscle, for possible publication.  This work is about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and it's been a process getting this show together.  It had a staged reading in June of 2019 and a staged production canceled due to COVID-19 later that same year.  The play was recently produced this past March, and I finished tweaking it during this incredibly hot and dry Texas summer.

Set in June of 1979, a young man who has just completed his Advanced Individual Training at Fort Sam Houston is meeting with a male prostitute at a cheap motel in Houston, Texas.  At first, both men discuss why they are there but as the story unfolds, the audience realizes that neither man is what he seems.  The recent army graduate, in fact, murdered someone a year ago this very night, and it is no coincidence that the escort he has brought back to his room resembles his first victim.

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:

Jeffrey, 19, introverted, tense, flat personality, a loner, has a Midwestern accent

Tex, 17, rough, cocky, streetwise, a hustler, speaks with an exaggerated Texas drawl

A Night Manager, 35, an offstage male voice, has a thick Hispanic accent

ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME:  Approximately 1 hour w/o intermission

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