Three Plays

By Barbara Hunter

The three plays are a portrait of human feelings, wants, and fears. They were written over a period of years and are intended to be a light read for anyone who finds the book in their hands

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 22, 2024
• ISBN: 9798369416952

Barbara Hunter

Barbara Hunter is retired and currently living in Central Florida. Since age four, Barbara has enjoyed the outdoors and at age nine began writing poetry. Besides writing poetry, her other hobbies include reading, writing plays and short stories, skeet shooting, fishing and gardening. She is a native of Des Moines, Iowa and lived there until age four when her family moved to San Francisco, California. Barbara enjoyed everything the San Francisco Bay Area had to offer. She has also lived in Arizona, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She has one daughter and one grandson. One of her poems has been published in the American Poetry Anthology 1982

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Rev. date: 02/22/2024

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CONTENTS

A View From Within

Cast Of Characters

Act One

Act Two

Act Three

Properties Listing

Clothing

Just A Four-Letter Word

Cast Of Characters

Act One

Properties Listing

Man Killer

Cast Of Characters

Act One

Properties Listing

For Fred, my true soul mate

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A VIEW FROM WITHIN

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Anne - Thirty-five years old, pretty, American born, tall, slim, long brown hair, brown eyes, tanned complexion.

Man Number One - Fifty years old, distinguished looking, approximately six feet tall, black hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, about ten pounds overweight around the belly.

Robed Woman Number One - Same as the character Anne but as she is dressed in a hooded, long robe only a bit of her face is showing.

Robed Man Number One - Same as the character Man Number One but as he is dressed in a hooded, long robe only a bit of his face is showing.

Man Number Two - Forty years old, handsome, olive complexion, dark eyes, Italian-American, excellent physique.

Robed Woman Number Two - Same as the character Anne but as she is dressed in a hooded, long robe only a bit of her face is showing. (Same as Robed Woman Number One)

Robed Man Number Two - Same as the character Man Number Two but as he is dressed in a hooded, long robe only a bit of his face is showing.

Young Woman - Anywhere from twenty-five to thirty-five years old. She looks like Anne; pretty, American born, tall, slim, long brown hair, brown eyes, tanned complexion.

ACT ONE

TIME: The present. Late Friday night.

PLACE: ANNE’S bedroom in her condominium.

AT RISE ANNE ENTERS L through door into bedroom. ANNE walks over to chaise lounge front stage L and starts undressing out of her business suit, placing discarded clothes on lounge. Naked, ANNE walks to dresser at right rear, opens the top drawer, pulls out a sheer black negligee and puts negligee on. ANNE sits down on chair in front of dresser looking at herself very carefully in the mirror. ANNE gives a big, disgusted sigh as she opens a jar of face cream and begins creaming her face. Coldly staring at herself in the mirror she methodically starts to wipe the cream off with a tissue. Face cleansing done ANNE heaves another big, disgusted sigh, walks to bed at front stage R, folds back the bedding, gets into bed and turns out the lamp on the nightstand. Stage lights go out. There is complete darkness.

Low stage lights come on very slowly. Sitting on floor, beside bed, facing audience, ROBED WOMAN NUMBER ONE and ROBED MAN NUMBER ONE dressed in hooded, long, flesh colored robes. ANNE is asleep. Slowly she begins to awaken. Awake, ANNE rises from bed, walks over to the first door of a three sectional closet at left rear, opens the door extending her right arm forward into the closet. ENTER MAN NUMBER ONE dressed in a vest of a business suit, jockey brief underwear, and leather shoes. Holding ANNE’S right hand he kisses her tenderly on the lips then walks over to chaise lounge front stage L and begins undressing, placing his discarded clothes on the chaise lounge, leaving only his underwear on. ANNE returns to bed and then MAN NUMBER ONE joins her in bed. ANNE and MAN NUMBER ONE are propped up against their pillows in a sitting position. ANNE rests her head on MAN NUMBER ONE’S left shoulder. MAN NUMBER ONE turns his head, looking down at top of ANNE’S head. Reaching his right hand over in front of ANNE, he starts caressing her neck and left shoulder.

MAN NUMBER ONE

Tired?

ANNE

(sighing)

God, yes. These last three weeks negotiating the Impracraft contract has been hell. I just don’t understand why Mr. Halleburg thinks the company should he selling picture frames in every damn five and dime store in the country. We have a good quality product for the professional framers but if we go for quantity,