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The Moan Grenade by Thomas Gabriele Busillo
Cast of Characters* Scott Greer………………………………………….……sales manager / amateur actor James Ijames……………………………………………..bus driver Ben Dibble………………………………………………harmless lunatic Jeff Coon………………………………………………..rich hangglider / enemy agent *A note on the naming of the characters: Two of the characters are named for Scott Greer and James Ijames, the outstanding actors who played the lead roles in the Arden theater’s 2013 production of Endgame. The other 2 characters are named for two other outstanding actors with long ties to the Arden - Ben Dibble (the greatest Batboy ever) and Jeff Coon (who the author’s girlfriend has been threatening to leave him for going on a decade now). Since this play will never be produced, the author felt it would benefit the reader to have the actors who in a ideal world would play the characters in mind as the play is read. Also, since I’m fessing up to things, the title of the play is an anagram of “Another Endgame.” TIME: The play takes place simultaneously with Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. SETTING: At the top of an abandoned black metal lighthouse in obvious disrepair. Where there would be a lantern is hung a sheet with a large circle crudely painted on it. A ladder leads up to it. Three characters sit underneath it chair on a very large widows walk with a railing, sit on a lawn chair, a stool and a folding chair. Scattered about are cans of paint, piles of clothes, and various boxes of unknown contents, although one is a case of Jack Daniels (James and Ben are sitting in chairs playing what appears to be some variation of rock/scissors/paper. Scott is to the right of them leaning over railing.) JAMES Fossils. BEN