LOGLINE: Jordie's school report on what she did over the weekend is being presented, but she's the epitome of an unreliable narrator. The truth as we watch it unfold is even more hilarious and improbable.
SYNOPSIS: Jordie reports to her class and teacher, Mrs. Blasfemia, that she had hoped to have a fun but 'normal' weekend with her two daddies. But a stranger and her baby had shown up at their door Friday night turning the next 52 hours of the wise-cracking tomboy's life into a series of misinterpreted scenes.
Her Black dad, Daddy Doug, is supposedly the half-brother of the stranger, Sally, but his birth mother Grammie Gert isn't so sure - was her Late Husband Number Two really unfaithful? And Jordie's other dad, (White, or BIPOC) Daddy Frank, and their housekeeper/physio-therapist Darren have hidden some white powder which Sally brought, into the handles of Daddy Frank's wheelchair. Why, Jordie wonders, would they be needing to hide Sally's baby powder? Or is that Darren's plant food for the lupines?
Two of Sally's boyfriends show up on Saturday, arguing over her and the baby– and one of them, Darren is pretty sure, is the musician 'Sting' in disguise. Grammie Gert doesn't care WHO he is; she's just determined to make him Husband Number Four.
When Madame Beverly, a drug-dealing dominatrix, arrives on Sunday, Jordie is sure she's there to give her riding lessons, Sally is afraid her stash will be stolen back, and Darren has fallen head over heels– literally, as Jordie unfortunately ‘witnesses’– with the high-booted, whip-cracking temptress.
Keywords: farce, one-act, diversity, misinterpretation, hilarity
Chosen, along with A Tack Room for rehearsed readings with professional filming in London UK in April 2025, with the film chosen for inclusion in the digital component of the Alabama International Fringe Festival, September 2025.
Genre: Comedy, Absurdist/Farce
Acts: 1
Run time: 60 minutes
Suitable for students 14+
Content notes: Lots of double 'adult' entendre that should go over a child's head, since the whole point is that it's being told from a child's perspective.
Cast size: 9 actors
Male roles: 3
Female roles: 3
Trans/Non-Binary/Gender Non-Conforming roles: 3
Casting notes: Dual-Roling - the voice of Mrs. Blasfemia may be played by Gertie. There are opportunities for several non-binary performers such as: Jordie, Madame Beverly, Darren and Doug