“This Magic Moment”
Dorf, Jon (aka Jonathan C. Dorf, American playwright, screenwriter, script consultant, teacher, 1971-____), “This Magic Moment,”
a 35-minute comedy in English, set in an apartment living room, late afternoon, 2001,
1m1f
; • © 2001 by Jonathan C. Dorf; • in Jonathan C. Dorf’s This Magic Moment (Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.: The Author, 2001); • script/rights available from Jonathan C. Dorf, 7125 De Longpre Avenue #209, Los Angeles, California 90046, U.S.A., e-mail jon@jondorf.com, http://www.jondorf.com, telephone (home) 323-512-5273. • Cited by Jonathan C. Dorf, via ftp February 17, 2001; Dorf says,
§ Dramatis Personae Boone (m), 18, a college-bound youth; Debbie (f), 40s, Boone’s mother.
§ Synopsis “Boone is ready to leave the nest and go off to college. He packs his suitcases—which seem particularly heavy with socks—and awaits his ride to the airport; the ride should arrive at any minute. But Debbie isn’t ready to let go. Unbeknownst to Boone, she has intercepted his ride and managed to get the poor driver wedged in their apartment building’s garage door. Boone sees the commotion below their window, as emergency personnel try to release the man. Boone has no idea just how important this particular man is: all he knows is that if he misses his flight, he’ll miss registration. Boone’s father disappeared at the beginning of the summer. While Boone wonders if he’s to blame for his father’s disappearance or whether his mother had something to do with it, Debbie connives to keep Boone from leaving her, even resorting to witchcraft. Crafty young Boone fashions his socks into a rope and escapes the apartment through the window.
§ Comment “One scene, with minimal tech. • Prospective producers should go to Home Page of Playwright and Screenwriter Jon Dorf, http://www.jondorf.com/.
§ Themes airport, college, father, garage door, mother, murder, witchcraft.
See also Jon Dorf’s
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"A-Bomb Wedding," a 10-minute comedy in English, set in a twenty-four hour convenience store, late at night, 2001, 2m
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"Beef Junkies," a 25-minute dark comedy in English, set on a suburban road, just before 5:00 p.m., the near future, 2m1f
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"Bookends," an absurd comedy in English, 2m2f, a comedy set in a small university library, March, 1996, 2m2f (1 male can be female; 2f can be doubled)
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"Crash Positions," a 10-minute comedy in English, set in an airplane in the air, 1997, 1m1f
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"F-Stop," a 10-minute dark comedy, set in a living room, early afternoon, 1997, 1m1f
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"From Shakespeare with Love?," a 45-minute comedy in English, set in an airport, various Shakespearean settings, 1:00 a.m., 1999, 2m2f
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"Jesus at the Taco Stand," a 10-minute dark comedy-drama in English, set outside a mental health clinic, Friday evening, 1998, 1m2f
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"Last Right Before the Void," a 10-minute comedy in English, set in a dark highway in Minnesota, or outside a house, U.S.A., late at night, 2000, 2m1f
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"Newt Gingrich Visits a Residential Youth Facility Not Near Omaha," a 10-minute comedy-drama in English, set in a bedroom in a foster care facility, an afternoon, 1995, 2m
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"Play's End," a 25-minute dark comedy in English, set in the Doe family living room, late afternoon, 1996, 2m
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"Ticking," a 25-minute dark comedy in English, set in the Doe family kitchen, morning, 1999, 3m
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"The Wash," a 10-minute dark comedy in English, set in the laundry room of a New York apartment building, 9:00 p.m., Friday evening, 1m1f
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"Whatever Happened to Godot?," a 10-minute ironic comedy in English, set in a drab apartment, morning, 2003, 3m
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"The White Pages," a 25-minute comedy in English, set in a used bookstore, two successive mornings, 1996, 2m2f
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"X Marks the Spot," a 10-minute comedy in English, set somewhere in the American midwest or a similar landscape, 2001, 1m1f
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"You're Next," a 17-minute drama in English, set in a storage room off a high school boys locker room, sometime before lunch, 1997, 2m
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