Playwright Portrait, Gregg Moss, Excerpt from punkplay

Gregg Moss 2009 copyright peter bellamy 2010

 

Name of play: punkplay

 

1. "It's morning in America"

2.

DUCK:

I just want to - you know. It’s hard enough just getting by, without making trouble for

yourself. My dad says.

MICKEY:

Yeah. I know.

But. You know.

Some people just can’t help it.

Making Trouble.

Name of play: punkplay

TIME

the entirety of american history in the 1980s /

one american boy’s high school career

CHARACTERS

duck - an unremarkable american boy, 14-18

mickey - an unremarkable american boy, 13-17

actor 1 - marcel - wheelchair bound, french canadian, 25

chris sawtelle - the coolest punk rock guy in a very small town

actor 2 - sue giki - it’s pronounced “geeky”, exceptional

Asian-American teenage girl 14-18

inés - marcel’s girlfriend, french canadian, 13

ronald reagan - a bikini clad lite beer model / the

40th president of the united states

chair, desk, clock - jovial animate furniture (puppets)

pisschrist -a controversial photograph by andres serrano (puppet)