Micci, Ronald, Ronald (American playwright, advertising proofreader,
editor, 1948-____), “Tragic & Trapped in Teaneck,”
a 13-minute comic melodrama in English, set in the
parlor of a home in Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.A., afternoon, turn of the
last century,
2m1f
;
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• Cited by Ronald Micci via ftp January 8, 1999; Micci says,
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Dramatis
Personae Rita (f), a fair maiden; Draper (m), a villain; Hoyt (m),
a villain.
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Synopsis
“‘Act One, wherein two villains appear at the door. . . . There once lived
a fair maiden named Rita. Happy was she, and carefree was she, who lived
all alone by herself in a quaint little house on a quaint little tree-lined
street in the dear old town of Teaneck. . . .’ So begins the narration
from the lips of Draper, one of the villains. Enter he and Hoyt, his associate,
who set upon the poor girl insisting she disclose to them the whereabouts
of stolen bank money believed to have been hidden by her grandfather there
in the house. She demurs—they carry her off to a cabin down by the old
millstream, and threaten to subject her soft and lovely neck to the ravages
of the buzzsaw unless she talks. Finally, she admits she does have extra
money lying around the house, and they take her back there, where she double-crosses
them, pulling a gun and explaining that her grandfather was an
undercover policeman who helped plan and perform the
heist with Drape in hopes of trapping him, but Draper had slipped away.”
§
Comment
In the grand old tradition of comic melodrama.”
Addendum 020312:
“Tragic & Trapped in Teaneck (2m,1f) (15 min.)
Lovely damsel Rita finds herself at the mercy of two
villainous
rogues who kidnap her from her turn-of-the-century
Teaneck home and
spirit her off to a cabin in the woods, there to subject
her to the
wrath of the buzzsaw. A parody in the old-fashioned
‘tie me to the
railroad tracks’ vein.”
§ Themes bank money, buzzsaw, cabin, double-cross, escape, family, grandfather-granddaughter relationship, gun, heist, living alone, millstream, narration, theft, trap, undercover police, villainy.
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