19 July, 2022

The Secret Life of Lizards

 

CHARACTERS

CLOWN 1: FEMALE, ANY AGE.

CLOWN 2: MALE, ANY AGE.

DOUG, THE LIZARDMAN: EARLY 40S.

TIME: NOW

LOCATIONS: MULTIPLE

 

The curtains are down as lights come up. From behind them we                                                                    start hearing one side of a dialogue:

 

CLOWN 1

(offstage)

Well, where is he! Uh… No, I can’t, I cant! There’s a balance to these things, I can’t just do it alone. They’re gonna hate it, they’re gonna hate me! Listen, I just don’t know how to handle rejection… Ok! Fine, fine!

Clown1 comes through the curtains. She stares at the audience, opens a wide smile.

CLOWN 1

Hi. Hello. How we, uh, how we doing today friends? It’s so nice to have you here, I’m sorry if this isn’t like, great, I usually have a partner to open the show with and…

Doesn’t matter! Does noooot matter. I’ll just, uh, do you folks like juggling? I can totally, yeah… Would you like that?

She puts her head back inside the curtains.

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Fernando Segall

Fernando Segall was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1997 from a family of Lebanese immigrants. He came to the US in 2016 where he graduated from NYU Tisch with a double major in Drama and Dramatic writing. Fernando has written multiple short plays that were performed at NYSumer and Winterfest, The workshop Theatre, Equity Library Theatre, The National Opera Center, The Secret Theatre, The Players Theatre, and was selected for the 2020 William Inge Theatre Festival. Full length Play Saudades received a reading sponsored by NYC City Corps in 2021 and was a part of American Stages 21st Century Voices 2022. He is currently working as a Screenwriter in Brazil with two features in development, including “Wrong Place, Wrong Time”( renowned Brazilian director Pedro Morelli attached to direct); while also pursuing a masters degree in playwriting at Columbia University.

Contributions by Fernando Segall