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COMEDY. A young woman fights for her inheritance.
Her " dying " uncle mocks her life and that of her actor husband. A
tirade occurs over Turtle Soup and ends in the spilling of soup and
the Uncle's guffaw joke that it is April first --All Fools Day--and he
is playing a joke.
CAST OF CHARACTERS: (1M,
1W)
A clever man, GENE SONIAT, 69. lies on his sickbed. Deaf, He stares
blankly ahead, and breathes through a partially opened mouth. When he
speaks, he shouts.
His pregnant niece, LUCILLE, 29, enters with a tray of soup and calls
out nervously over his rough breathing.
SETTING:
Noon , the present time, in New Orleans . A stark light glares into
the master bedroom of a mansion. |
Mansion in New Orleans |
