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One Red Shoe
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$60.00 Royalty per Performance
$20.00 Single-Use Copyright Fees
One Red Shoe
One Red Shoe
by Paul J. DiLella
A Parody on Pirandello
3F / 7M or 2F / 6M with doubling
Approximate Playing Time: 90 minutes
It’s final dress before the opening of MINDCON and the actor playing Irene Covey is missing. Oddly enough, Detective Rene Dubois shows up at the theatre to investigate; a coincidence or a plan? One of Irene's red dancing shoes is found; a clue or a signature? That Detective Dubois asks the right questions incriminates everyone in the cast; shrewd intuition or inside information? A death. Another detective appears; a sham or a shamus? Screams and a strangulation follow. The other red shoe is discovered. Interrogations start over; lives in limbo or déjà vu? Such questions are part of the puzzle in this play within-a-play. As in Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, the characters in MINDCON believe they are real and act accordingly to save themselves when the playwright who created them would rather kill them off than see his play fail to open. “One Red Shoe” explores the paradoxes of reality and illusion, of free will and fate, of linear and circular time, of art in life and life in art with mind-boggling humor.
$20 Single Use Copyright Fee plus $60 Royalty per Performance for Amateur Theatre. Professional Theatre Royalties Calculated on Application.
$60.00 Royalty per Performance
$20.00 Single-Use Copyright Fees