The String by Michael R. McGuire

A gang of criminals under the leadership of Polyxena have gathered at her bar in the lead up to an impending heist. A stranger named Mikey drinks at the bar and arouses the suspicions of the crooks. Brooklyn, the brash, foul-mouthed, and increasingly erratic technical expert attempts to seduce Mikey to determine if he’s an undercover cop, or simply some schmuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. The third gang member, who goes by the moniker Soccer Mom, arrives with a very young new girlfriend in tow. When Brooklyn takes Mikey off to a hotel room, Soccer Mom convinces Polyxena to replace Brooklyn in the criminal string due to Brooklyn’s reckless behavior and substance abuse. Her new partner, Katie, it turns out, is a criminal, too, with the same skill set as Brooklyn. Written by Michael R. McGuire Directed by Sophia Menconi Produced by A. J. Campbell, The Quarantine Players CAST Brooklyn...............................................KeeKee Funches Polyxena.........................................................Judy Lewis Mikey..........................................Cameron Lee Conlan Soccer Mom.................................................Lori Brooks Katie.......................................................Mikayla Trimpey Stage Direction..............................Adam Frost-Venrick Find out more about the Quarantine Players at QuarantinePlayers.org We work with playwrights to develop great new plays.   Check us out. About the Playwright: Michael R. McGuire McGuire’s play "It Comes From Beyond!" was produced in NYC in 2012 by Horse Trade Theater. His play "Persephone Rules!" is published by Brooklyn Publishers. He was awarded a 2005 CT Artist Fellowship for his play "The New Girl." His plays have been workshopped and produced at The Lark, Theater for the New City, Slant of Light Theater, Hygienic Theaterwerks, Valley Rep, and Heartland Theater as well as others. https://newplayexchange.org/users/23698/michael-r-mcguire See his books at https://www.lulu.com/search?adult_audience_rating=00&contributor=Michael+R.+McGuire&page=1&pageSize=10 About Quarantine Players https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers https://quarantineplayers.org/ https://twitter.com/q_players https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers/channel/ Creating Theater from Scratch When we started, there was no template for creating theater over the internet, which turned out to be perfect because we could remove all the obstacles that held us back. At the time, we didn’t know what zoom was or how we could use it. Would people even know how to use it? How much would it cost? And what the heck is a virtual background? We had so many questions, but we watched all of our productions canceled in those horrible first days of Spring 2020. We didn’t have to create a “season” of plays; we could choose any plays we wanted to do. It gave us a kind of freedom to select the best work we can find without appeasing a particular audience. We choose the plays, cast the roles, then we find an audience.