Author: Matt
Pelfrey
Synopsis: After barely surviving an office rampage, Mac Winchell is
thrust into a nightmare landscape populated by lost Marlboro Men,
psychotic vagabonds, sinister corporate thugs and a strange cult known
as a “The Church of Christ, Office Shooter”. Mac attempts to escape
this twisted reality by undertaking a quest that ultimately leads him
into the darkest corners of the American Dream. Terminus
Americana is
a surreal, visceral and challenging examination of our
violence-saturated culture.
Cast Size: 5 Males, 3
Females, double casting
KINDLE EDITION
SCRIPT SAMPLE
“Matt Pelfrey’s “Terminus Americana” emerges as one of those rare works
that actually gains clarity in light of recent catastrophes...indeed,
with its emphasis on insane conspiracy theories and the American
apocalypse, Pelfrey’s darkly comic play seems eerily prescient.” --LOS
ANGELES TIMES
“The appeal of Pelfrey’s piece is his clever, comic explosion of the
media portrayal of violence into an absurd, yet somehow truthful,
vision. His point is not so much that America is besotted with
violence, but that American media is besotted with violence. Needless
to say, shows that feature people being mauled by animals, and the Fox
network in particular, take it on the chin.” --BACK
STAGE WEST (CRITIC’S PICK)
“Matt Pelfrey’s play
throbs with dark urgency and wit, a fever dream of
political/economic/sexual paranoia. The creative density of Pelfrey’s
vision is impressive, positing an alternative America where mutant
babies swim in corporate zoos. The heartland is literally a Marlboro
Country populated by cancerous, hacking Marlboro Men, where a vicious
Uncle Sam runs the show as a sort of malignant Elvis.” --L.A.
WEEKLY (PICK OF THE WEEK)
