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    Discipline: A Play
    Discipline: A Play
    Discipline: A Play
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    Discipline: A Play

    By Gerard Bianco

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    Compelling!Christopher Kompanek

    Meet Harold Jenkins, a sexually frustrated man. Essentially isolated in his New York City apartment, he is helpless against the powers that control his every hour. Hes stuck in a rut of old habits, and thats making things difficult with Lilly, his less-than-generous lady love. But for Harold, new possibilities arrive in the appearance of a mysterious stranger. He cant quite figure out how to respond to this strange person he finds sniffling on his stove in the middle of the night.

    Bewildered and confused, Harold is faced with a critical decision: will he succumb to the requirements dictated by the powers that be, or will he take control of his life in the only way he knows how? Harold has no problems taking matters into his own handsand thats part of the problem.

    Discipline is a madcap comedy with a sympathetic mix of wit, banter, love, and frustration that flirts with the obsessions that can drive a man to madness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateDec 29, 2011
    ISBN9781462070237
    Discipline: A Play
    Author

    Gerard Bianco

    Gerard Bianco is an award-winning author, playwright, and artist.He was born in Brooklyn, NY.He holds an MFA in Writing and teaches creative writing.His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals.He studied art at the Arts Students League of New York and at the School of Visual Arts. His portraits and illustrations hang in public, corporate, and private collections throughout the United States, including the US Navy Art Collection.Gerard lives in Maine where he is hard at work, illustrating his next imaginary tale.

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      Book preview

      Discipline - Gerard Bianco

      Contents

      Cast of Characters

      Act One

      Act Two

      For V,

      my lovely daughter.

      I miss you.

      Acknowledgments

      I would like to thank family and friends who read the manuscript during its infancy, adding advice along the way.

      Special thanks to Rhonda Farnham Photography for making me look good in the author photo.

      Thank you to Kathleen Egan, Claudia Dricot, and Elizabeth Isele for their editorial expertise.

      Finally, I’d like to thank my son, Gerard Jr., for his assistance and inspiration while developing the play and my companion and best friend, Caterina, for her patience and understanding while I worked on the manuscript.

      DISCIPLINE

      A Play

      Cast of Characters

      HAROLD JENKINS, forty years old

      LILLY, forty years old

      FRUSTRATO, forty years old

      POLICEMAN, fifty years old, one of New York City’s finest

      Place

      The seventeenth-floor apartment of HAROLD JENKINS in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

      Time

      Act One: Summer, 1:00 a.m.

      Act Two: The next night, 11:30 p.m.

      Act One

      (After midnight in the one-bedroom apartment of HAROLD JENKINS. Downstage right is a dining room where two chairs sit opposite each other at a small, rectangular table. A plate with crumbs, a glass with some soda, and a crumpled napkin are at one end of the table. An entrance door is off the dining room. Behind the dining room is a small, windowless, U-shaped kitchen. The stove is in the center of the U, facing the audience. Downstage center is a small living room, sparsely furnished. Downstage left is a bedroom. In the bedroom, the foot of the bed faces the audience. A nightstand with a lamp and telephone sits on the left side of the bed; a dresser is on the right side. Next to the dresser is a window, which looks out onto Eighteenth Street. Upstage center is a bathroom door.

      HAROLD and LILLY are in the bedroom, sitting up in bed. The bedroom door is closed. The nightstand lamp is lit. The rest of the stage is dark. HAROLD, lamp side, is wearing pajamas and looking at the photos in a Playboy magazine. LILLY is wearing a sexy Victoria Secret nightgown. She sits, doing nothing.)

      HAROLD

      (Looking at the magazine, he pauses, looks at LILLY. She looks at him. He looks back at the magazine, then again at her. They repeat this two more times.) I find that no two nipples are alike—even on the same person.

      LILLY

      It’s not polite to compare them.

      HAROLD

      I wouldn’t know why.

      LILLY

      I wouldn’t think you would, so I’ll tell you.

      HAROLD

      I knew you would.

      LILLY

      It’s not polite to compare nipples because it shows disrespect for either one or the other. Besides, it’s rude to move your head between the two as if you were at a tennis match. (She moves her head from side to side.) The correct way to look at nipples is to stare straight ahead, without showing favoritism of any sort. (She illustrates by staring straight ahead.)

      HAROLD

      I had no idea there was a correct way to look at nipples.

      LILLY

      There’s a correct way to do everything; not that I would ever expect you to understand that.

      HAROLD

      What are you saying? Are you implying that I do not do things correctly?

      LILLY

      Did a light just go on?

      HAROLD

      Why, I do lots of things correctly.

      LILLY

      Really? Name one.

      HAROLD

      (Thinking) I shave. I get up in the morning and I shave, correctly.

      LILLY

      No you don’t.

      HAROLD

      Don’t be absurd, of course I do. I’ve been shaving my whole life. I shave correctly.

      LILLY

      I’ve watched you shave. You shave like a moron.

      HAROLD

      Why, that’s news. And how does a moron shave?

      LILLY

      You shave your entire face in one direction—down. (She illustrates on her face.)

      HAROLD

      So, what’s your point?

      LILLY

      There are places you can’t reach by shaving down. (She illustrates, puffing out her cheek and then her upper lip.) You should shave up and down. Also, if you shave in both directions, you won’t cut yourself the way you normally do.

      HAROLD

      When were you going to mention this?

      LILLY

      I’ve been meaning to.

      HAROLD

      I could have saved quarts of blood had you said something sooner.

      LILLY

      Sorry, slipped my mind.

      HAROLD

      I used to do things correctly. Now, for some reason …

      LILLY

      That was before.

      HAROLD

      If only I could do things like I used to. I can’t seem to remember things—things we’ve discussed. Nothing is achieved without great difficulty these days.

      LILLY

      You can’t go backwards, you know.

      HAROLD

      I bet it’s the pills.

      LILLY

      Are you certain it’s only the pills?

      HAROLD

      It’s the

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