American Farce/Thriller
by: Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore
Directed by: Rob Conway
Produced by:Lynn Wolsey
Audition Notes:
Cast Requirements:
The play has 5 men and 3 women
Marnie Elbies & Jeff Elbies – a young married couple, Robbie & Midge- best friends of the Elbies and they live in the same apartment building. Thor Larswald, Lila Larswald – a strange and violent couple who live directly across the courtway from the Elbies in the apartment complex. Loomis – the apartment buildings handyman and Detective Doyle Thomas.
The time is the 1950s. The setting is two apartments in a New York apartment complex. The stage is divided into two identical apartments. One is tastefully furnished, warm and welcoming; the other is stark, modern and cold.
Plot Synopsis:
In this comedy tribute to Master of Horror Alfred Hitchcock, off-and-on couple Marnie and Jeff think they spy their cross courtyard neighbor do away with his wife. After the lady vanishes, suspicion places murder beyond a shadow of a doubt. Among multiple door-slammings, body-snatchings, and a frantic flashlight chase scene, two questions remain; who killed Lila Larswald? And… if she’s not dead… then who is?