A Noir Comedy in Two Acts Click for the Kindle e-book.

     In this witty, provocative play about truth and illusion, unrelenting rain pours down outside the Connecticut home  of Dakin Abernathy.  Inside, Dakin and his neighbor, Ted Mueller, engage in a verbal joust where nothing is as it seems. Or is it?

      Dakin, a noted film noir director, accuses Ted of having killed his own wife.  In fact, Dakin, produces a severed woman’s thumb as evidence.  Ted protests, yet as morning spins into afternoon and a thunderous evening, he begins to believe that he might, indeed, be a murderer.  

     But something about Dakin’s manner suggests that he could just be riffing on one his film noir plots.  Dakin’s wife, Angela, complicates events with her flaky personality and suicidal tendencies.  Their daughter, Lana Veronica, comes home for the weekend saying she is in trouble with the law.  Then again, Lana Veronica likes to tell lies.  Dakin and Ted play cat and mouse over murder, breaking and entering and the very nature of fact and fiction.  Events escalate and secrets are revealed until the play itself suggests a film noir, complete with dark music, ominous lighting and swirling fog.

     Two men, two women.  Two acts.

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