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Outrage! is a corrosive collage of malevolent, abrasive, and bizarre observations on the events and institutions of our age. Outrage! is what Aristophanes and Voltaire would have written, had they encountered O.J. Simpson, George Bush and the National Rifle Association. Outrage! endorses hypocrisy, as a preferred anesthesia, for the pain produced by simultaneously maintaining contradictory value systems. Outrage!concedes that the seminal ingredients of satire are misery, discord, death, and disease. Outrage!is nervous laughter, punctuated by painful spasms of self-recognition. Outrage! is Tarzan as he crashes to the jungle floor screaming, "Who greased my vine!" Outrage! distracts with small offenses as it moves relentlessly toward some ultimate insolence. Outrage! will provoke equal-time demands from the American Medical Association; the Veterans of Foreign Wars; the State Department; the Vatican; the Girl Scouts; the NRA, the ... Outrage! recognizes the unrecognizable: we are all servo-mechanisms of our media. Outrage! is a license for cathartic hostility. Outrage! is a terminal observation on the human condition: namely, nothing works. Outrage!would be outrageous, were it not so true. Developed during a writers workshop, under the direction of a controlled substance, Outrage! is cheap to produce. Only the subsequent class-action law suits will be expensive.
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