The December People’s Choice Award goes to…

The people have spoken… The December People’s Choice Award goes to Summer Broyhill for her play, GLUE, presented as a staged reading at Monday Night PlayGround on December 9th live at Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast via Vimeo Livestream. Congratulations, Summer!

Courtesy of Summer, we’re pleased to share the first two pages from the award-winning script. Enjoy!

Glue
by
Summer Broyhill

Cast of Characters:
Sheila: (female identifying, 30’s – 40’s) A busy lawyer and mother of two elementary-age
kids, Asher and Arden. Her husband, Frank, is the primary care parent and has been
secretly building the kids a dollhouse.

Frank: (male identifying, 30’s -40’s, cameo role) Sheila’s husband who has suffered a fall
and a hot glue injury while trying to complete the dollhouse.

Noel: (female identifying, 40’s-80’s, older than Sheila in a way that makes her feel like a
mentor or a mother) The glue that holds her husband Chris’s “logistics” business together.
Christmas Eve is their busiest night. She doesn’t have kids, one might call her a “childless
cat lady”, but she emanates compassion and can-do spirit. Obviously a caregiver.

Nurse Johnson: (Any gender, late 20’s – early 40’s) An intake nurse assigned to
communicate with families

Setting: The Emergency Room waiting area at Scripps Hospital in San Diego, CA

Time: Christmas Eve

Lights up on a hospital waiting area, decorated for Christmas with some strung tinsel and paper snowflakes. Periodic murmurs over the intercom, phones ringing, sirens outside.
NOEL is curled up with some paperwork and a cup of hot cocoa. She’s decked out in a festive Christmas sweater and black boots, suitable for snow. At her feet is a red duffel bag. FRANK and SHEILA enter through the sliding doors and approach the intake desk where NURSE JOHNSON is seated. FRANK’s a little woozy and dramatic. His hand is glued to the inside of a miniature chimney structure from a DIY Victorian dollhouse. He also appears to be a little beat up from a fall.

NURSE JOHNSON
Welcome to Scripps Mercy, sign in and take a—-is that a…chimney?

SHEILA
Frank’s been trying to be Super Dad. He’s been putting this dollhouse together for our kids,
managed to glue his hand inside the chimney, and oh, burying the lead, he FELL OFF A
LADDER today.

FRANK
I JUMPED off the ladder with a flourish.

SHEILA
Flourishes don’t sound like that.

NURSE JOHNSON
Your eyes do like a little dilated….

FRANK clears his throat and gestures at SHEILA to speak up. She reluctantly does.

SHEILA
Um, Frank also wants you to know that he’s spent over six hours gluing the chimney
together and so IF the hand can be removed with minimal damage to the chimney, he would appreciate it.

NURSE JOHNSON
I think we ought to get you to CT first, make sure you don’t have any head injuries, then we can address the, uh, dollhouse infrastructure.

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