“Heat Lightning”
Micci, Ronald (American playwright, advertising proofreader-editor, 1948-____), “Heat Lightning,”
a 15-minute comedy-melodrama in English, set in the downstairs parlor of a broken-down Southern mansion, on a stormy night, May, 2001,
1m1f
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• © 2001 by Ronald Micci, scripts
and rights available from Ronald Micci,
75 Vreeland Avenue, Rutherford, New Jersey 07070, U.S.A., phone (home)
201-438-3267, (work) 212-297-7290, e-mail RVMicci@comcast.net.
Cited by Ronald Micci via ftp, May 12, 2001; Micci says,
§ Dramatis Personae Johnny Testis (m), 30, a macho stud, with bulging triceps and a reputation to match; Delores del Fuego (f), a giant Amazon and equally-potent sexual force.
§ Synopsis “Two strangers encounter each other while taking refuge in a Southern mansion during a ferocious lightning storm, striking macho poses, and the sexual fireworks explode. Enter Johnny Testis. ‘Johnny Testis. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. . . . Car broke down. Had to stay somewhere. I was walking through the woods. Then I saw it—this crummy old plantation. . . . But that lightning, that heat lightning, it’s burning up my soul.’ Sound at the door. Enter Delores del Fuego, who thrusts the door open, knocking Testis to the floor. ‘Delores del Fuego—fiery, fulsome, frenetically endowed. Got off work. Had to stay somewhere. . . That lightning, it’s burnin’ up the sky. . . .’ They try to out-macho each other. Then realize they have crossed paths before. At a circus sideshow in Cincinnati. With the grotesque sounds of Testis and the ringmaster’s daughter carrying on, keeping del Fuego up all night. They get ready to compete to the death in a game of strip poker, when the lightning starts again. Suddenly emboldened to confess her love for Testis, Delores wants to go outside and face the lightning down. Testis stops her and goes in her stead. A crash of lightning. A groan from without. And Testis stumbles in, mortally stricken by a lightning bolt. For a few brief moments, Delores del Fuego is guilt riddled, holding her dying beloved in her arms. Testis gets up, brushes himself off, and reveals it was just a trick.
§ Comment “Unit set. A door or doors would help. A pack of cards. A chair or two and a table. There is overt sexuality here, so it would probably be more suited to college audiences. Although apart from Delores removing a calculator from between her breasts, there shouldn’t be anything graphically offensive. Yes, there are passionate clinches. This thing is an over-the-top melodramatic sex farce. Whatever that means.””
Addendum 020312: “Heat Lightning (1m,1f) (15 min.)
A couple of horny strangers—Johnny Testis and Delores del Fuego—
take refuge in a broken-down Southern mansion during a lightning
storm and attempt to out-macho each other.
§ Themes circus, country road, dark shadows, decay, defiance, Gothic horror, lightning, lust, machismo, mansion,
muscularity, passion, physical beauty, plantation, rain, sex, strip poker, stud, terror, thunderstorm, virility.
See also Ron Micci’s:
“Love’s Cousin
in the Carolinas,” a 13-minute romantic comedy in English, set at a
park bench in the suburbanNortheast, U.S.A., a Saturday afternoon in late
summer, 1998, 1m1f
“Wild About Harry!” a 15-minute detective
farce in English, set in a sleazy gin joint; later, Harry’s apartment,
night, 2001, 2m1f
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