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Scotch and Water

Brett C Leonard

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Description

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.

Production Info

Cast: 9 total (1 female, 8 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Reviews

Press Quotes

“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

Author

  • 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).

About the Book

Book Information

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

Special Notes

Special Notes

Licensees are required to include the original stage producers credits in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:

World premiere by Hen & Chickens, London

The following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
Scotch and Water is produced
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypublishing.com