The Karma Bums
Synopsis

The time is the present. All the action takes place in the Psychic Reading Room in The House of Karma, which is a Long Island-based, New Age mini-mart and learning center, a phenomenal place where the here and the hereafter meet, mingle, and merge on an everyday basis. It’s a one-set, six-character (four women, two men), one-act, full-length comedy.
The Karma Bums is about CATHY CLOONY-COLUCCI, an aging, down-and-out, one-time-Oscar nominated Diva, who inherits a New Age business from her late Wiccan aunt, and then proceeds to wreak havoc on the pack of metaphysical misfits who run the joint. It’s the classic Monster-in-the-house story with Cathy, a larger-than-life-material girl, scheming her way through an over-the-top-spiritual world. Throughout the play, she desperately wants to resurrect her acting career, but she’s in the midst of a massive mid-life crisis, and every audition she goes on turns out to be more nightmarish than the one before. She resigns herself to the fact that, at least for now, she has to reinvent herself and embrace this metaphysical business, if for no other reason than because ¬– there’s a lot of money to be made hyping New Age crap. By the end of the play, in an ironic twist of fate, Cathy discovers her own psychic gifts, and thanks to The House of Karma and The Karma Bums themselves, she ultimately achieves her goal to be in front of the camera again.

As for the Karma Bums, they’re a diverse group of individuals who live and/or work in The House of Karma. The Generation X Karma Bums, include: DESTINY, the morbidly obese Resident Psychic, who despises Cathy, and DOC, the Resident Herbalist and recovering alcoholic, who loves Cathy. The Generation Y (Millennials), include: BOBBI, the Sexy Tea Fairy and reality show wannabe, and DICK YOUNG, the vapid, Yoga Stud. The Silent Generation is represented by RITA, the eighty-years-young massage therapist, Reiki master, medium, astrologist, numerologist, Tarotherapist, and past life regressionist, who claims: “If it’s New Age, in my old age I do it. The only thing I can’t do anymore in this incarnation is die young.”