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JOHN PACENTINI JR.: a salesman, 29 years old

JOHN PACENTINI SR. or DAD: John's dead dad, was a salesman. (Dad also inhabits the character
of Popo the Clown.)

BABE DUPREE: saleswoman, 30, John's ex-fiancé

DICK: salesman, one of Dad's cronies, pushing 70

SMITTY: same

SHELLY UNDERWOOD: a saleswoman, pushing 60, tried to be one of Dad's cronies

BEATRICE FRENCH or BERT: a saleswoman, pushing 30, works for Shelly

GREG DELVECKIO: a successful salesman, 27

VALDOFF: an alien

 

Whenever each character first appears, dates of birth should be indicated wherever and however possible. And then they should disappear.

 

TIME AND PLACE

Around the millennium. The Western United States.

 

SET

The set should be non-naturalistic and fantastical. The dotted line of a freeway stripe flows through the audience, up the stage and out into nowhere. There are freeway signs, as well as several restaurant and hotel chains. There are no main playing areas. There is the essence of a hotel room with a Murphy Bed and perhaps an upper level hidden by a curtain or swinging doors that reveal restaurant scenes and the like.

 

NOTE

The pace of the play should be speedy and the characters should be larger than "larger than life."