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COMMIE BOOTS
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COMMIE BOOTS
COMMIE BOOTS
A Dark Comedy in a Dark Tavern in Iowa
by Gary Britson
1W/ 5M
Approximate Playing Time: 2 hours
It’s the 1950’s and Ike has just been elected president; more fodder for the meanest and toughest son-of-a-bitch in Holstein, Iowa; the self-proclaimed “great” Grant Standard. Grant has a reputation for beating up anyone who crosses him and carries a little black book to record the names of people he deems a communist. He sends his list every Sunday to Brother Joe McCarthy who never writes back. Grant is among the regulars at Ed’s Tavern, a harsh, deliberately uncomfortable place where serious, marginally employable, amiably confused men gather to sop up the suds around-the-clock. Few women have ever been there. It is never happy hour because no one is ever happy there. On the other hand, the patrons are usually relaxed around each other as they have known one another for decades. In this intensely character-driven dark comedy, Ed has just died and his strong and fierce widow, Dolly, is bent on shaking up the status quo even if it kills her—or someone else. “Commie Boots” is not intended for children. The “N” word and other derogatory terms appear in this play, although for no other purpose than to reflect the nature of certain characters and the times although it may not be coincidental that the times have not changed all that much.
$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 Fee