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Ba-Bang! (A Political Cartoon Play) by Thomas M. Kelly

ISBN #1-933159-91-X
JAC
#2007-00
09

Cast Requirements:

12 characters with potential doubling. Specific personalities and characterizations should be used when representing/imitation actual figures:

<Judas> DUBYA: (George W. Bush)
<Disciple> LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER:
<Jesus Christ> UNCLE SAM:
<Disciple> DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER:
<Peter> CARL SAGAN: :
<Bartholomew> WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE:
<James> ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
<Andrew> HARRY S. TRUMAN:
<John> JOHN F. KENNEDY:
<Thomas> LEONARDO DA VINCI:
<James Major> MAHATMA GHANDI:
<Mary Magdalene> ELEANOR ROOSEVELT:
<Naomi> SUSAN B. ANTHONY:
<Ruth> BARBARA JORDAN:
<Sarah> GOLDA MIER:
ANNE FRANK:
WARREN BUFFETT:
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER:
LORD JACOB ROTHSCHILD:
GOD: (Female voice-over.)
CONDOLISA RICE: (Voice over)
ENSEMBLE: Miscellaneous individuals which can be listed cast members doubled, or additional personalities for Lady One, Lady Two, Body Builders, Bradley, Jeffery, Um Nadal, Reporter, Mouin, Mouin’s Trainer, Reporter

Setting

A black box set. Desk, long table, a reclining office chair, pillows, couches.

Synopsis

A group of powerful and influential men and women including energy, banking, electronic technology and pharmaceutical executives meet at billionaire Warren Buffett’s Waddesdon Manor: the ultimate networking opportunity. Among those invited are the likes of James Wolfensohn <President of the World Bank>, Jorma Ollila <Chief Executive Officer of Nokia>, Chief Executive Officer of the worlds largest food processing and distribution company, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the worlds largest research-based pharmaceutical company, Chief Executive Officers of major oil corporations, Chairman and Chief Executive Officers of major banking establishments, Governor of California <Arnold Schwarzenegger>, celebrity customer of the conference sponsor NetJets Inc, a private jet business owned by Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer and three unnamed guests, outside the meeting hall: “Jay”, “Que”, and “Dubya”. Of the three unnamed guests they nominate one to a very important unnamed position: the Presidency of the United States. They secretly nominate George W. Bush, Dubya. Dubya agrees on the condition that he make his presidential legacy by waging war against those countries throughout the world denying freedom and democracy to their citizens and that he be allowed to spread the word of God in those freedom deprived countries with the exception that he leave certain countries alone <if they are ‘owned’ by his “moneyed buds”. They enthusiastically and supplicatingly agree.

Later, we find Dubya trying to use his influence with God to help him with his legacy: his quest to spread freedom, liberty and Christianity throughout the world. During his private prayer session he is visited by some of the worlds greatest thinkers: Carl Sagan, William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, Confuscius, John F. Kennedy, Leonardo Di Vinci, Mahatma Ghandi, Lord Timothy Dexter, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Anne Frank, Barbara Jordan, Golda Mier, and of course,God. They were all summoned by God to fix Dubya’s <Dubyaisms and all> leadership image.

A good politician must have a good image to sell his agenda and to buy his legacy for the world to remember.

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See also Thomas Kelly's one-act FANA! and full-lengths ZEN and the Art of Making Par, Extreme Unction, The Timekeeper, ...smile, and smile, and be a villain, The Butterfly Within and Mixville!

Looking for plays for children?  How about Kelly's collection of short plays, The (Mis)Adventures of Charlie & Jay?

Author Biography

Thomas M. Kelly is the owner and Artistic director of the award-winning Thistle Dew Theatre, and founder of the Thistle Dew Playwright’s Workshop.  Local awards: Several “Elly” nominations and two Elly Awards: Best Overall Production for A Shayna Madel and best Set for Nighthawks and Night Café, based on the painting “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper.  He has written and produced many children’s plays.   They feature Charlie (Prince Charlemagne de Coquille), a French Briard puppy, and Jay (Jaida de les Etoiles), a Persian Red Point feline” This is not our backyard, Charlie, You’re in trouble now, Charlie, and Wake up, Jay!  It’s Christmas!, 2006 winner of four local Elly Awards for Young People’s Theatre including Best Overall production.

Kelly’s honors: The Butterfly Within is included in the Eileen Heckart Senior Drama Archives in the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University.

 Some of Kelly’s other works:

  •  Ole’ Gimlet Eye is a biographical play about Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U.S.M.C.  A man who defied the powers that were to wage a war against war in the days before World War II: “War is a racket!  I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”  In the 1930s, he revealed to the then ill President Roosevelt a scheme to replace him.  Roosevelt, with a “Presidential Assistant” by a conglomerate of financiers, bankers and industrialists, and he, Butler, would be appointed as the new “Dictator.”

  • Zen and the Art of Making Par, Extreme Unction and How to Improve Your Life in Four Easy Moves are more recent, full-length and one-act plays.

8/6/10 - Thomas M. Kelly Buzz: Sac Live: Thistle Dew Theatre presents comedic helping of "Thirds" by Marcus Crowder, The Sacramento (CA) Bee

 
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