Family
by Thomas W. Sypek
#2006-0002ISBN #1-933159-52-9
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Cast Requirements:
 | TOM WALLACE: 55. A father who believes in family values. A man
with a strict sense of rules and regulations. |
 | ANNA WALLACE: 54. Toms wife, small and fragile, a delicate
piece of glass who is shattered by life. A woman that is haunted by secrets. She is an
alcoholic. |
 | UNCLE WILLIE FERGERSON: 63. A fisherman. A lifetime friend of The
Wallaces. |
 | CAROL WALLACE: 16. She is struggling with her identity. She is a
perfect daughter and lady. |
 | RICHARD (RICHIE) WALLACE: 17. Average teenager. He has an air
about him of a beaten puppy. He is nervous and unsure of himself.
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Synopsis
The Wallace Family lives in a three-story house in South Boston,
Massachusetts. It is the 1950s. Tom Wallace, a man who believes life should be lived
by a set of rules, works two jobs. His son, Richie has just dropped out of school. His
younger daughter Carol has left school and is working. Uncle Willy, an old friend of the
family, has just lost his job. Tom takes him in. Toms wife Anna is a small fragile
woman haunted by ghosts of the past. On the surface everything seems normal, but
underneath things are starting to surface. Secret after secret is revealed.
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Time
1953-1954
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Place
A kitchen in the family home of the Wallaces.
Old wall paper cover the walls. There are kitchen appliances: refrigerator, sink, stove.
There is an aluminum plastic top table complete with chairs. A portable record player is
on the counter with some records beside it. On one of the counters is a radio. There is a
pantry. Cabinets line the walls. On the back wall are two windows from which you can see
the backyard. Between the windows is a large clock set for five oclock. A worn out
linoleum covers the kitchen floor. There are three doors on stage. A kitchen door that
leads to the front door. A door upstage of the kitchen that leads to the backyard. A door
downstage left that leads to the cellar and the bathroom. There are stairs in the hall
that lead upstairs. On one of the walls is a phone.
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Properties List
Shotgun. Cardboard Christmas decorations. Two barrel hoops, colored
twine, wire, Christmas ornaments, scissors, red and green crepe paper, miniature Christmas
tree. Crochet bag with yarn, Two half pint bottles of Four Roses Whiskey, Two packages of
cigarettes, Recording of Doris Days, Secret Love, Eddie Fishers,
Oh, My Papa., Rock Around The Clock, and Ave
Maria. Recordings of Christmas music. Wristwatch. A piece of paper with numbers on
it. 1950s kitchen set. Recorder. Radio. Wall Clock. Telephone. Rocking Chair.
Kitchen appliances. Lunch box. Frozen Shirt with outstretched arms. Clothesline. Two books
by Edward Rowe Snow, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England, and True Tales of
Buried Treasures. Baseball cap.
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Suggested Music & Recordings
Doris Days Secret Love, Eddie Fishers Oh,
My Papa, Rock Around the Clock, Ave Maria, Southie is
My Home Town, and Christmas Carols. There are also the sounds of a gunshot being
fired and a car honking outdoors.
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Costume Plot
 | TOM: 1950s work clothes. Hat and coat. Dress pants and shirt. |
 | ANNA: 1950s dress. Shoes. Bag. Housecoat. Slippers. |
 | RICHARD: 1950s pants, shirt, shoes, coat. |
 | CAROL: 1950s dress, coat, hat, and shoes. |
 | UNCLE WILLY: Old overalls, shoes, fishermans cap. |

Author Biography
Tom Sypeks work has been read and performed in and
around the Boston Area. His first full-length play, His Place in the Sun, had a
reading at The Playwrights Platform in Boston. The Out Loud Theatre of Cambridge did
a reading of his one act play, Strangers. His other original work Hysteria,
dealing with the AIDS scare, was produced by the Writers Ensemble and performed at
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston.
Family was produced as a stage reading by Peg Holzemers
Theatre One Productions, Inc. at The Middleboro Public Library. The play was directed by
Susan ONeil with local actors Patricia Minkle, Tom White, Jim Norris,
Lousie-Dery-Wells, Francis M. Girard and Laura Decesare.
Tom is presently at work on another production and along with his playwriting skills,
he is a talented Poet, Actor, Director and writer of Short Stories. He has as an actor
performed for The Winthrop Players, Mission Hill Players, Theatre One, Nemasket River
Productions, Charlestown Working Theatre, and The S.O.B.E.T Players of South Boston. His
poetry has been printed in The South Boston Literary Gazette and local newspapers. |