PLAYS

 
 


Museum Piece

A Play in One Act by William Fowkes


Presented at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival at the Theater for the New City, New York, 8PM, April 2010.



Available for production and publication


 

A Play in One Act


SYNOPSIS:

A disruptive incident at the Museum of Modern Art brings three strangers together one Saturday afternoon. In this comedic tale, our three visitors are drawn to the museum for very different reasons and have oddly different experiences once they get there, leading to the unavoidable conclusion that the people who go to museums are often more compelling than the works on display.



SETTING: A bare stage.   



TIME: Now—a Saturday afternoon.



CHARACTERS:

#1: Brash, opinionated, tough, plainspoken.


#2: Well-educated, well-traveled, idealistic, sensitive.


#3: Self-involved, hypochondriac, fearful.


These three characters may be played by adults of either sex and of any age, race, ethnicity or physical type—and in any combination.