Supershrink

Full-Lengths

By: Dan Eden
Cast: 4 M, 3 F, 5 flexible, opt. extras
Performance Time: Approximately 120 minutes, 107 pgs.

FARCE. The great superhero, Nuclear Man, is slipping. He’s gained weight, he keeps forgetting to bring the bad-guy net, and he’s obsessed with getting new rims for the Nukemobile. Worried, Atom Boy, Nuclear Man’s sidekick, convinces Elliot, a psychologist, to take on Nuclear Man as a patient. When Elliot meets Nuclear Man, it is clear that Nuclear Man is suffering from a standard midlife crisis and Elliot advises Nuclear Man to take a vacation from fighting his arch-nemesis, Cosmo. Meanwhile…Elliot’s sister-in-law falls in love with Cosmo while cyber-dating but doesn’t know he’s a super-villain, and Atom Boy falls in love with Elliot’s assistant but she only has eyes for Nuclear Man. Sick of Nuclear Man’s bullying, name-calling, and wedgies, Atom Boy hatches a plot to rid himself of Nuclear Man once and for all so that he can reinvent himself as the new superhero “Awesome Man”!

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Dan Eden, a Chicago native, is an actor and playwright. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago in Film and Video with a focus in Screenwriting.