Capture the Flag: A Trilogy

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Capture the Flag: A Trilogy

Capture the Flag Trilogy: three stand-alone, independent plays that follow two families from the election of 2000 through the invasion of Iraq. Designed to be performed as separate dramas, none of the plays require foreknowledge of the other; but taken together, they form a cohesive story.

1. Assisted Regime Change

In the weeks leading up to the election of 2000, Waylon Cruz returns to his hometown on a Florida Gulf Coast barrier island, following the death of both his parents in a boating accident. There, he falls in love with Kingsley Shakespeare, a pot-smoking, Jewish Jamaican-American schoolteacher, who is unfortunately already dating Teddy Junior, Waylon’s boyhood friend and the outrageously foul-mouthed son of the Island’s police chief, Big Ted. Big Ted is stocking up on vegetable seeds and fishing nets in case of an unspecified millennial natural or man-made disaster, and pressuring Kingsley to give a passing grade to a high school basketball star who never attended a single one of her classes. Meanwhile, Big Ted’s young new wife, Eudora, fears her husband’s affections are wandering, and asks help from Teddy Junior. Teddy Junior agrees, but soon finds himself growing increasingly obsessed with his younger stepmother. Then Waylon starts to wonder if the accident that killed his parents perhaps wasn’t quite so accidental after all. 3M, 2W.

2. Bloodless

Steve Rogers works for the CIA. On September 10, 2001 he’s given an assignment he deplores: destabilize the Venezuelan economy and assist in the removal of Hugo Chávez. Meanwhile, Sarah Rogers, his pregnant wife, is suffering from schizophrenic hallucinations and trying to hold on her to her sanity while hiding her mental illness from her husband. Unbeknownst to Sarah, her best friend, Trinidad Ibáñez, is secretly in love with Steve, and Commander Marcos Pérez Kronen, an anti-Chávez conspirator, is falling hard for Sarah. An imaginative look behind the events that culminated in a coup attempt against Hugo Chávez in 2002. 4M, 3W.

3. The Bush Doctrine

During the early days of the invasion of Iraq, Steve and Sarah Rogers move to Calusa Island. When a local woman is murdered, Police Chief Waylon Cruz quickly narrows the suspects down to two: a neighborhood drug dealer . . . or Steve Rogers. Meanwhile, Sarah Rogers becomes the drug dealer’s number one customer, and Waylon wonders if his wife, Kingsley, is having an affair with Steve. Then the murdered woman’s identical twin sister shows up. 3 M, 4W.

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