Banana Nut Split

One-Acts 20

By: Wade Bradford
Cast: 1 M, 1 F, 2 flexible
Performance Time: Approximately 30 minutes, 24 pgs.

FARCE. As Mona, a restaurant owner, nervously awaits the arrival of a famous food critic, she discovers that all of her waiters have called in sick, and the only employee she has on hand is Lisa, the janitor. And if that isn’t bad enough, Lisa has gone temporarily blind from viewing a solar eclipse. Then when a young man, Bradley, arrives at the restaurant, Mona mistakes him for the food critic and tries to impress him by masquerading as an Italian waiter and a French violinist/kazoo player. Bradley, on the other hand, is there to propose to his girlfriend, Susan, and to confess to her that he has multiple personalities that include a cowboy, Elvis, a British detective, and a bank-robbing psychotic animal-rights activist—all of which tend to come out when he is under stress. As the evening progresses, Bradley gets more and more nervous at the thought of marriage and his split personalities begin to emerge one by one!

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An accomplished playwright, Wade Bradford has written several plays that have been performed by schools and theatres throughout the United States. Mr. Bradford teaches composition at a community college and lives with his wife and children in California.