2nd Place at the McLaren Comedy Playwriting Competition. 2nd Place in the Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence.

It's 1955, and Trevor Stanton is an ambitious young actor about to make his Broadway debut. There's just one problem: Bertram Finch, New York City's most powerful theatre critic. Bertram has never liked Trevor's work, and it's guaranteed that the infamous Barracuda of Broadway will use the occasion to pen a scathing, career-destroying review.

The solution is obvious. Trevor kidnaps Bertram and plans to hide him in his dressing room until the next day, preventing the critic from writing his review. But when Bertram begs for a drink, Trevor accidentally switches the bottle of rat poison in which his boozing co-star Jack keeps his scotch with a real bottle of rat poison.

By the time Trevor realizes his mistake, it's too late. Tortured groans emanate from the wardrobe where Trevor has stashed his victim, and as a parade of outrageous characters make their way to his dressing room, Trevor must take increasingly desperate measures to hide his horrible deed.

Only at the end, when a pair of bumbling cops arrive to arrest Trevor, does Bertram prove to be the greatest actor of them all...

Run Time: 80-100 minutes