Feel-Good Ending

Boots Gallagher was a child star on a sitcom. Now in mid-life, she shares her Hollywood home with Sofía, her Nicaraguan housekeeper/friend, and Allison, Boots’s doctor who lives in her pool house. All three are present when Boots’s old sister Dori, who’s been living in Colorado, comes to stay with Boots after a breakup. Dori sharply questions Sofía and Allison, suspecting them of using/manipulating Boots...

Boots Gallagher was a child star on a sitcom. Now in mid-life, she shares her Hollywood home with Sofía, her Nicaraguan housekeeper/friend, and Allison, Boots’s doctor who lives in her pool house. All three are present when Boots’s old sister Dori, who’s been living in Colorado, comes to stay with Boots after a breakup. Dori sharply questions Sofía and Allison, suspecting them of using/manipulating Boots. Allison and Sofía are equally wary of Dori, with Allison asking pointed questions of her own. Dori wants to write a show with Boots – a sitcom, drama, reality show, or maybe a film? It would be about a former child star, Boots or a fictionalized version of her, trying to navigate the adult world and her “has-been” status. Boots is warm toward Dori in some moments, and diffuses tension – but she’s emotionally volatile. Boots goes off to take a nap, and the other three women keep talking… Until there’s a problem with waking Boots up. Dori has accused Allison of being a “Dr. Feel-Good” type, who writes all kinds of prescriptions: the kind of doctor involved in the death of an Elvis Presley, a Prince or Michael Jackson. But Allison references ways that Dori may be implicated in what’s gone wrong – ways in which all four women may be implicated.

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Feel-Good Ending

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  • Marj O'Neill-Butler: Feel-Good Ending

    I read this online through Atlanta Dramatists. It's an involving play with four women dealing with the loss of status of a former child star, Boots, a money grabbing sister who tries to set up a deal, a Nicaraguan housekeeper, and a live-in doctor who may be enabling her with drugs. Great piece for four women.

    I read this online through Atlanta Dramatists. It's an involving play with four women dealing with the loss of status of a former child star, Boots, a money grabbing sister who tries to set up a deal, a Nicaraguan housekeeper, and a live-in doctor who may be enabling her with drugs. Great piece for four women.

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania, Year 2025

Awards

  • SOPS
    the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania
    Finalist
    2025