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Roger and Vanessa & Scotch and Water

Brett C Leonard
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This collection includes two short plays: ROGER AND VANESSA and SCOTCH AND WATER. ROGER AND VANESSA: Fresh out of prison, Roger has a scheme to make his volatile relationship with Vanessa, a manicurist, profitable through a singing act. The only problem is “You can’t sing,” says Vanessa. This sets off a hilarious battle in which Roger and Vanessa air their grievances with each other, and it comes to light that Vanessa is pregnant. Is Roger the father? And is their love sufficient to conquer the challenges that confront them? SCOTCH AND WATER: Raw, raucous, and surprisingly tender, SCOTCH AND WATER explores the world of six lost souls held together by mutual loneliness. Gathered in their favorite dive bar, the has-beens and never-beens drink away the hours until a young man with a gun bursts through the door and shakes their status quo.

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ROGER AND VANESSA

“Brett C Leonard’s dark one-act crackles with bleak humor … fiery … nasty … Leonard’s dialogue has plenty of bite.” —Sandra Ross, L A Weekly

“Seedy, harsh and poetic … Leonard is at his lyrical best … devastatingly honest.” —Brad Schreiber, Backstage

SCOTCH AND WATER

“Leonard captures well the slow descent from morning brightness into afternoon torpor.” —Michael Billington, The Guardian

“Slick, blackly humorous, and stylishly executed … squeezes fresh comedy from the consequences of a gunman bursting into the alcoholic gloom … bracingly irreverent, emotionally gripping.” —Rachel Halliburton, Time Out

About the Author

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  • Brett C Leonard

    Brett C Leonard has been a member of New York's acclaimed LAByrinth Theater Company since 2003. His stage plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, Berlin and Sydney. In early 2010 his play THE LONG RED ROAD was directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman in an extended-run world premiere at Goodman Theatre in Chicago. In 2008 UNCONDITIONAL was directed by Mark Wing-Davey in its world premiere production by LAByrinth Theater Company at New York's Public Theater, and is published in Smith & Kraus' New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2008. In 2004 his play GUINEA PIG SOLO had its world premiere as the inaugural LAByrinth/Public Theater co-production, and was later produced at Chicago's Collaboraction, where it was named Chicago Tribune's "Top 10 of 2005" and "most visceral show of the year." In 2007 GUINEA PIG SOLO was presented as part of the Berlin Arts Festival's 50th Anniversary at the House of World Culture. ROGER AND VANESSA has been produced at Latchmere Theatre 503 in London, The Actors' Gang in Los Angeles and Tap Gallery in Sydney. SCOTCH AND WATER was first produced by New Company in London, where it was selected as Critics' Choice in Time Out London. Mr. Leonard is the recipient of the 2008 Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award and is Co-Artistic Director (with Tom Hardy and Kelly Marcel) of London's Bad Dog Theatre Company. He is also a member of Israel Horovitz's Playwrights Lab. GUINEA PIG SOLO, UNCONDITIONAL, ROGER AND VANESSA, SCOTCH AND WATER and THE LONG RED ROAD are published by Broadway Play Publishing. Past and upcoming film and television projects include Unconditional (Cooper's Town Prods/Overture Films), The Other (Lionsgate, co-written with Tom Hardy), Hung (HBO), Jailbait (Belladonna/Kindred/Warner Brothers) and Upstate (E-1 Ent., co-written with Bob Glaudini).

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Publisher BPPI
Publication Date 12/1/2010
Pages 74
ISBN 9780881454536