Thrilled in Dubuque
This is a short evening (maybe 75 or 80 minutes) consisting of two plays: a
curtain-raiser called Thrilled in Dubuque and a one-act play called Team 31
Sector B. Team was written first and Thrilled was written as a separate idea. It
occured to me somewhere along the line that they could be combined in such a way
that the same six actors could play the six characters in each play. The idea for
Thrilled popped into my head after I had read too many program biographies in
which theatre folks professed to be thrilled or delighted or stunned or otherwise
taken aback to be involved in the current production. Team is another in my series
of plays about groups, specifically about a work group in a meeting. As a consultant,
I advised clients on how to have more productive meetings. I even wrote and
published a book about meetings. This is, in a sense, my smart-ass farewell to the
world of consulting.
To the play.