Candycane Hurricane: A Play in One Act

In this dramatic one act play, a gentleman arrives to pick up a young woman on the day of her release from a psychiatric hospital. Dramatica Press plays are designed to enhance readability of the stageplay format by creating a new ergonomic layout and using color to easily differentiate between character names, dialogue, parentheticals, and stage directions. Characters EMMA - A southern girl of twenty-five. An unexpected respite at the psychiatric hospital has truncated her life as she knew it. A daddy's girl. MR. PARRY - A tall, bespectacled, disheveled man, about fifty: a very dapper southern gentleman who wears kindness on his face. The kind of guy who would give twenty bucks to some kids who offered to wash his car for five. NURSE - A rotund, female nurse. A no-nonsense kind of gal, but one who has compassion written all over her face. Her bark is louder than her bite. ORDERLY 1 - Non-speaking role, preferably male. ORDERLY 2 - Non-speaking role, preferably male.