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Dramatists Guild
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A Heavenly Blast
by
Rose Martula
4 Males, 3 Females
Synopsis:
On his way over to the usual, Sunday
night family dinner, NICK--a raging alcoholic from a well-to-do
family—hits and kills a young girl while driving drunk. Upon arriving at
his pill-popping sister’s, he must face his family and somehow disclose
his shameful secret. Unfortunately, everyone at dinner has their own
agenda. From Nick’s, boozing, wild-man father SNOOPY yelling at the TV,
his brother-in-law LENNY constantly telling others how pathetic he has
become, niece BECCA and her imaginary dog, to nephew JOEY and his lofty
pimping dreams, it is tough to get a word in. It is the story of a
family that does not listen.
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