Character Counts by Richard Lyons Conlon
[FULL-LENGTH COMEDY]
One fine Saturday morning, Wren Wright finds a disturbing note in the mailbox, addressed to her. Anonymous, handwritten, unstamped, and positively cryptic, it reads simply: "Character Counts". Wren, already struggling with stability and balance issues, is set off on a journey to discover which of her "nosy, judgmental" neighbors sent it and why. Is the note, as...
[FULL-LENGTH COMEDY]
One fine Saturday morning, Wren Wright finds a disturbing note in the mailbox, addressed to her. Anonymous, handwritten, unstamped, and positively cryptic, it reads simply: "Character Counts". Wren, already struggling with stability and balance issues, is set off on a journey to discover which of her "nosy, judgmental" neighbors sent it and why. Is the note, as she believes, condemning her past behavior? Or is it, as her husband Ben asserts, commending her recent actions?
The prime suspect in Wren's estimation: 87-year old Edna Jenkins, with whom she's had a longstanding feud. Of course, Edna has her own skeletons rattling about (did she really rob her best friend's cradle?). Soon, it's learned that the neighborhood layabout and cowboy wannabe, Brett, has also received the note. As has the creepy, voyeuristic Mr. Maladroix. And who knows who else? Brett's teenage daughter Addie has her own higher-powered ideas about who sent it, but then so does everyone else. Before fingers can be fully pointed however, another, similar note arrives. And then another. And then, more.
And finally, a note arrives inviting all to meet at 10:00pm on a Friday in June to "discover the true meaning of character."
A somewhat mysterious, positively twisted, flat-out hilarious look at the neighborhoods and communities in which we all live.