Wishing Aces

Short Play Comedy

Characters: 2 male 2 female

Bare stage w/props.

A Southern comedy about mature love found later in life and the trouble and insight that such discoveries can bring. Though well-warned Kitten a runaway housewife decides to travel with her Tulane professor Beau on a train trip through the Louisiana swamp. Their plans are upset when her son Bunky in an effort to punish her shows up as a stowaway on the train. Kitten and Beau struggle through their disappointments mourning the futility of their lives while the hurricane brewing outside the train builds toward its inevitable whirlwind of destruction.

Also available in A Louisiana Gentleman and other New Orleans Comedies.