The Will to Get Married
A Dark Comic Trilogy on Love & Death
by Steven W Rodgers
Cast of 6 (3m,3w)
Running time: 90 minutes
Act I For the Love of Mr. Paradise
(3m,3w)
The upscale apartment of George and Molly Paradise
Molly Paradise, 25, a hopeless romantic
George Paradise, 35, a lawyer
Rev. Gervais R. Nippletuck, 75, a marriage counselor
Horace Aspinwall, 35, a gregarious farmer from Alabama
Winifred, 65, a frumpy, eccentric Jewish woman from Peoria
Muffin, 25, a hopelessly incompetent 2nd year medical student
A dying marriage, an eccentric counselor, a clueless medical student and a Southern drifter collide in a wildly inappropriate race to save a relationship already beyond repair.
Act II Dead Lovers
(1m,2w)
An upscale restaurant
Wendell, 35, nebbish taxidermist and hen-pecked husband
Kathleen, 25, Wendell's domineering, bisexual wife
Sylvia, 25, Kathleen's lover
During an elegant dinner, a timid taxidermist discovers that both his wife and his mistress are having an affair ... with each other!
Act III Mail-Order Groom
(3m,3w)
The drawing room of the Radcliffe mansion, England
Godbey, 75, the frail, elderly head butler
Madame Radcliffe, 65, the head of the Radcliffe estate
Jonathan Cates, 35, a mail order groom
Jennifer, 25, Mrs. Radcliff’s beautiful, albeit recently deceased daughter
Lt. Ashley Dalrymple, 25, a no-nonsense police officer
Sgt. Hodgkins, 35, a bumbling oaf
A mail-order groom arrives at a grand English estate for his wedding, only to find that his bride-to-be has died under mysterious circumstances.
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