Fixer-Upper

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By: Paul DiLella
Cast: 1 M, 1 F, 6 flexible (With doubling 1 M, 1 F)
Performance Time: Approximately 30 minutes, 27 pgs.

FARCE. The characters in this collection of three 10-minute plays are in definite need of fixing! In “Fixer-Upper,” a real-estate salesman is desperate to make a quick sale so that he doesn’t have to go back to teaching. With the housing market soaring in Los Angeles, he sets out to sell the only affordable “house” in the area—a cardboard box. In “Blind Date,” two seeing-eye dogs watch with horror as their blind owners go out on a blind date. And in “Don’t Wake the President,” two White House watch officers must decide which major international event warrants waking the President from his deep slumber: a French military installation break-in, major flooding in India, North Korea testing its first nuclear weapon, the Russians losing a submarine, a major hurricane headed toward Cuba, or the recall of the President’s favorite videogame.

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Paul DiLella has published several plays and is a graduate of Syracuse University with a degree in speech and theatre. Mr. DiLella has taught speech, theatre, and English at Pahrump Valley High School.