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| Ba-Bang!
(A Political Cartoon Play)
by Thomas M. Kelly #2007-0009 ISBN #1-933159-91-X (See also Thomas Kelly's one-act FANA! and full-lengths ...smile, and smile, and be a villain and The Butterfly Within!)
Cast Requirements: 12 characters with potential doubling. Specific
personalities and characterizations should be used when
representing/imitation actual figures:
Setting A black box set. Desk, long table, a reclining office chair, pillows, couches.
Synopsis A group of powerful and influential men and women
including energy, banking, electronic technology and pharmaceutical
executives meet at billionaire Warren Buffett’s Waddesdon Manor: the
ultimate networking opportunity. Among those invited are the likes of James
Wolfensohn <President of the World Bank>, Jorma Ollila <Chief Executive
Officer of Nokia>, Chief Executive Officer of the worlds largest food
processing and distribution company, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
the worlds largest research-based pharmaceutical company, Chief Executive
Officers of major oil corporations, Chairman and Chief Executive Officers of
major banking establishments, Governor of California <Arnold
Schwarzenegger>, celebrity customer of the conference sponsor NetJets Inc, a
private jet business owned by Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., De Beers
chairman Nicky Oppenheimer and three unnamed guests, outside the meeting
hall: “Jay”, “Que”, and “Dubya”. Of the three unnamed guests they nominate
one to a very important unnamed position: the Presidency of the United
States. They secretly nominate George W. Bush, Dubya. Dubya agrees on the
condition that he make his presidential legacy by waging war against those
countries throughout the world denying freedom and democracy to their
citizens and that he be allowed to spread the word of God in those freedom
deprived countries with the exception that he leave certain countries alone
<if they are ‘owned’ by his “moneyed buds”. They enthusiastically and
supplicatingly agree. |
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Author Biography
Thomas
M. Kelly
is
the owner and Artistic director of the award-winning Thistle Dew Theatre, and founder of
the Thistle Dew Playwrights Workshop. Local
awards: Several Elly nominations and two Elly Awards: Best Overall Production
for
A
Shayna Madel
and
best Set
for
Nighthawks and Night Café,
based on the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.
He
has written and produced many childrens plays.
They feature Charlie (Prince Charlemagne de Coquille), a French Briard
puppy, and Jay (Jaida de les Etoiles), a Persian Red Point feline
This
is not our backyard, Charlie,
Youre
in trouble now, Charlie,
and
Wake
up, Jay! Its Christmas!,
2006 winner of four local Elly Awards for Young Peoples Theatre including Best
Overall production.
Kellys
honors: The Butterfly Within is included in the Eileen Heckart Senior Drama Archives in
the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University.
JAC
Publishing & Promotions has published the following Kelly plays:
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