Chasing Rabbits

By Mark Fletcher

A play, a monologue, in one act.

A twenty one minute journey through the mind of a man whose involvement in a traffic accident turns out to be less than accidental.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Fletcher
• Release date: Feb 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005739928

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CHASING RABBITS

Mark Fletcher

© Copyright Mark Fletcher

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Richmond VIC 3121

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SYNOPSIS

The play opens with Nick Walsh in a police station interview room. His questioners cannot be seen or heard. The dialogue of the piece is Nick's response to those asking him questions and talking with him.

Nick has just been brought in for questioning because his vehicle has been found to have been involved in a road accident in which another driver died.

The other driver was Nick's dad.

It is eventually powerfully and dramatically revealed that Nick killed his dad because he molested him as a child. There are flashbacks to one of these incidents immediately followed by a flashback to the murder.

Nick's whole mission has been to retrieve compromising photos that his dad took of him as a child. When it becomes clear that the police will use these photos in a court case that will follow the accident, Nick is shattered.

CAST

Nick Walsh. Late thirties to early forties. Courier.

Wearing overalls. Hair unkempt. Unshaven.

Walsh has an average education and works as a building laborer.

SET

Center stage is a table with a chair on one side. The table is typical country police station issue as is the chair - grey with