| Even Hitler Wrote a Book
by
Michael Vukadinovich
ISBN #1-933159-11-1
#2005-0015
Cast
3M/3W
- NICOLE: A woman in her early 20s; sensitive and caring
- SEBASTIAN: Nicole's friend. A man in his early 20s; analytical; removed;
slow; dim-witted
- JAMES: Nicole's friend. A man in his early 20s; nervous; tense; lacking
confidence
- SUSAN: A woman in her late 50s; caring; kind; unassuming
- MEYER: A man in his late 50s; blunt; rude
- DEVIN: Meyer's daughter. A teenage girl wearing torn clothes and black
make-up; a punk; craves attention
Plot Summary
Time: The present
Place: A funeral parlor
Setting: A somber room, center stage is a casket with a few rows of chairs behind it.
Even Hitler Wrote a book is a comedy involving three young
actors (Nicole, James and Sebastian) who practice their acting skill by giving monologues
to actual dead bodies before open-casket funerals. At this particular funeral, they draw a
mustache on the corpse (Oscar) with make-up after arguing whether or not he look likes
Hitler. When the makeup doesn’t come off and the widow (Susan) enters they are forced
to act their way out of the situation. The task becomes increasingly harder as they learn
that Susan is Jewish and Oscar’s brother (Meyer), and his daughter (Devin) enter.
After a fight over the inheritance money, a discussion on self-circumcision and singing
the Oscar Meyer song, Nicole, James and Sebastian all become a larger part of Susan’s
life than they ever planned.
 Author
Biography
Michael Vukadinovich is a
writer and director living in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of the 2007
Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriting Award, the 2007 Wichita State University
Playwriting Contest, the 2006 Reverie Productions Next Generation
Playwriting Competition, the 2006 Tim Robbins Playwriting Award for plays of
social significance, and the 2005 Sidney Sheldon Playwriting Award. His work
has been produced or developed with Reverie Productions (off-Broadway),
Overlap Productions (off-Broadway), Moving Arts (Los Angeles), Playwright's
Arena (Los Angeles), Eclectic Company Theater (Hollywood), The Will Geer
Theatricum Botanicum (Topanga), the Ensemble Studio Theatre (Los Angeles),
Fusion Theatre Company (Albuquerque), the Orlando Shakespeare Theater and
internationally at The Serbian National Theatre, The Theatre Group (the
Netherlands) and Edinburgh Fringe Festival among others. Select plays
include
Billboard (available from Samuel French),
Gilbert,
or Death by Obituary (Four stars from
The Scotsman),
Trog and Clay,
The Magician and the Memory,
Terrarium,
Misconceptions (available from Eldridge
Plays), and
A Giant Arc in the Skyspace of Directions, or The Story of Miracles.
He is also the winner of a grant funding research on political theatre in
Ireland and Northern Ireland and has served as a writer in residence for
Upper Reaches Theatre Company. He completed his MFA at UCLA in playwriting
where he has also taught writing classes.
He is currently developing a series for Starz and working on a variety of
film projects. He is represented by International Creative Management.
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