Suddenly, a Shot Rang Out…

One-Acts 20

By: Peter Campbell
Cast: 2 M, 2 F, 1 flexible
Performance Time: Approximately 30 minutes, 28 pgs.

SPOOF. Audiences will love this hilarious film noir spoof. Lola Dusseldorf, a mysterious femme fatale, arrives in Chinatown at the office of Jack Fargo, a bumbling private investigator on the verge of bankruptcy. Lola has invented a plastics formula that will revolutionize the patio furniture industry and is on the run from the evil Colonel Wilberton, a spy dispatched by the Pan-Eurasian Petrochemicals Company to steal the formula. Colonel Wilberton is prepared to do anything…even employ one of the most hideous forms of torture known to man involving castor oil and a feather to obtain the formula. But before Lola and Jack can even leave the office, Colonel Wilberton arrives with his hulking bodyguard, a feather, and a bottle of castor oil. It doesn’t take long before Jack and Lola put two and two together and realize they are in a real slippery situation!

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Peter Campbell has written several plays, some of which have been performed in professional theatres. Mr. Campbell attended Pennsylvania State University and Syracuse University and has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and speechwriter. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.