San Francisco Scarecrows

By Kevin Lōttes

Hopper and Ozzie travel from the Midwest to the West Coast to find what is missing in their lives. The authenticity of their identity and their view of the world around them depends on it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kevin Lōttes
• Release date: Aug 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9780976241645

Kevin Lōttes

Kevin Lōttes (pronounced “lotus”) won the Bob Dylan Days first-place prize for fiction in 2008. He is the author of the story collection, First Person Last. He is the playwright of several produced plays, including The Leash of the Rainbow's Meow, The Line Shack, Paralyzed July, San Francisco Scarecrows, and Two Mrs. & Ablaze. His selected prose appears in The Good Things About America (Write Bloody Publishing). Monologues from his numerous plays appear in Classroom Scenes and Monologues (Dramatic Publishing) and in several editions of the Audition Arsenal Anthology Series (Smith & Krauss, Inc.). He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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San Francisco Scarecrows

a play by Kevin Lottes

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Copyright 2013

Smashwords Edition.

This ebook is a work of dramatic fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

This ebook play format is designed for the reading public only. All dramatic rights are fully protected by copyrights, and no public or private performances---professional or amateur---and no public readings for profit may be given without written permission of the author and the payment of a royalty. Anyone disregarding the author's rights renders himself liable to prosecution. Communications should be addressed to the author, Kevin Lottes, 1407 Chesterton Square North Columbus, Ohio 43229 or by email: [e-mail].

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I wouldn’t say that I had a particularly horrendous childhood compared to the modern kids. You know, I think the modern kids probably have it worse. Having sometimes no fatherly influence at all.---Sam Shepard

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Characters:

HOPPER---thirty, male

OZZIE---thirty-three, male

Time:

Father’s Day weekend.

Place:

A San Francisco hotel room.

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Scene One

Roger Miller's Chug-A-Lug plays throughout the theatre. The lights come up, revealing a crammed San Francisco hotel room. The room appears to have been occupied for a day or two. Piles of clothes, open suitcases and duffle bags, empty beer cans, liquor bottles, etc. litter the room. By the sink and mirror area, a bare hanger dangles from the towel rack. Two new fishing poles lean against a corner. A new basketball sits on the floor. OZZIE is in bed, asleep. HOPPER sits