A brand new play, still in the early drafts.
Mrs. Dilber's Fabulous Bedcurtains is a new version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol - but instead of centering on the old white guy, it features Mrs. Dilber - the housekeeper who takes his bedcurtains in the original - and her epic attempt to get some bedcurtains in spite of a series of ghosts and other diversions on a night adjacent to the more familiar story.
I wrote the play because, well, I'm so tired of A Christmas Carol. I mean, I like it - it's a fun play, and I've seen some lovely versions... but I want something a little different. I'm ready for a change, and when I want to see a play that suits my tastes exactly, luckily I have an easy solution. Write it!
It has some of the sillier tones of The Lady Demands Satisfaction - actually, probably even sillier in many places - but with the same elemental core of seriousness - although where Lady dives into gender roles, Mrs. Dilber's Fabulous Bedcurtains aims squarely at our social inequality that has only gotten worse since Dickens wrote the original.
I hope to have a table read soon, and when I posted info about it in a couple of FaceBook groups, I had more than thirty High School teachers ask for a copy... so I think this one will be done next season for sure!
A Radio Play version is also available! Contact me!
Sample Dialogue...
Mrs. Dilber's Fabulous Bedcurtains is available from the playwright for production.
