Micci, Ronald V. (American playwright, advertising proofreader-editor, 1948-____),
“Family Ruins,”
a 10-minute melodrama in English, set in the downstairs parlor of a spooky old house, an April evening of 2003,
1m
; © 2003 by Ronald V. Micci; • in Ronald V. Micci’s Ronald V. Micci’s Family Ruins (Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: The Author, 2003); • script/rights available from Ronald V. Micci, 75 Vreeland Avenue, Rutherford, New Jersey 07070, U.S.A., telephone (home) 201-438-3267, (work) 212-210-7549, e-mail RVMicci@comcast.net. • Cited by Ronald V. Micci, via ftp, September 4, 2003; Micci says,
§ Dramatis Persona Raymond (m), 45, haunted by a traumatic past.
§ Synopsis “In the spooky, rundown downstairs parlor of a Gothic-looking old house on a bleak April night, a man relives the horror of living with a tyrannical father and awaits a reunion with his brother and sister. But it becomes apparent that there will be no reunion, and he comes to the realization that he may have contributed to their deaths in a house fire.
§ Comment “Simple set—perhaps some furniture covered over in sheets.”
§ Themes catastrophe, cruelty, desolation, destruction, dominance, father-son relationship, fatherhood, fear, fire, Gothic, guilt, reunion, sibling, tyranny.
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