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Turkey Day

HOLIDAY FARCE. It’s Thanksgiving, the birds are singing, and everything is perfect as Bruce and Buffy eagerly await the arrival of their relatives. But when the guests arrive, it doesn’t take long before several salacious family secrets are revealed. Bruce discovers that he is adopted and his parents have been divorced for 15 years, his brother-in-law is a backyard gringo bullfighter, his mother has been blackmailing his sister-in-law, his nephew may be his son, and that Uncle Charlie and Aunt Gertrude are actually the same person. Then things really heat up when the turkey starts on fire and half the house burns down, Bruce’s mother dies in the bathroom and her body disappears, and Buffy’s brother-in-law asks Bruce for $150,000 to purchase a lemur ranch. But it’s all good until pandemonium breaks out…

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Cast: 
BRUCE: Typical 1950s sitcom husband. BUFFY: Bruce’s 1950s sitcom wife. BEATRICE: Buffy’s bitter, manipulative sister who has a major inferiority complex. ERNIE: Beatrice’s husband, a backyard gringo bullfighter, who yearns to purchase a lemur ranch; looks like a used-car salesman. EDGAR: Beatrice and Ernie’s Gothic son who has changed his name to Edgar Allan Poe; his IQ is off the charts but he’s a little strange in the head; flexible. (Note: If played as a female, change real name from Oscar to Oscinda.) MOTHER: Bruce’s ill-tempered, blackmailing mother. DADDY: Bruce’s father who thinks Mother is a she-demon; wears a shirt and a pair of Dickies pants. BOBBY RAY/BOBBI RAE: Bruce and Buffy’s neighbor who likes to eavesdrop and shoot songbirds; voice only; flexible. NOTE: For flexible roles, change the script accordingly.
Authors: 
Jeff Folschinsky