a short play cycle
in two parts
2m
Exterior/Interior
Includes Thank You For Your Business, Jimmy Callahan, McCluskey Counts Each Peach, Give Me May, A Judah Kiss, Saturday Mornings at McCullar's, Notes Toward a Sunday Sermon, Gardens Without Seed, Finding the Blue Light, and What Will the Stranger Say
This one-evening short play cycle, written for one Caucasian and one African-American actor, features nine stories set in various areas of Walbridge County, Alabama. In Thank You For Your Business, Jimmy Callahan, a close friendship ends as Wilson Dermott prematurely ends a romantic relationship with his best friend Charlie Parkins' sister. McCluskey Counts Each Peach is a comedy following Charlie's fruit-stand job with his friend Henderson Ellis. Henderson is given center stage in the monologue Give Me May as he attempts the seduction of his concerned girlfriend. In A Judah Kiss, the suppressed feelings of betrayal connected to a friend's death bring an odd closure to Dylan Boshell. Boshell's closure brings new life in Saturday Mornings at McCullar's. The second half shows us a monologue from the Very Reverend Danny Crenshaw as he contemplates his Notes Toward a Sunday Sermon. A wedding brings stress and a kind of forgiveness to the young men in Gardens Without Seed while a mysterious and unexplained omen haunts the comic characters of Finding the Blue Light. Coming full circle, Wilson Dermott receives his punishment for his ignorance in What Will the Stranger Say. The Brotherhood Cycle offers a cross-section of a unique Southern county—through funerals, weddings, work, Church, hatred, and friendship, we feel the importance of brothers in all walks of life.
The Brotherhood Cycle, a short play cycle in two parts, benefited from a reading July 6, 2011 at the PVHS Fine Arts Center in Pinson, Alabama. It was directed by R. Daniel Walker, with stage directions read by Ray Cole. The cast was as follows:
| R. Daniel Walker as | Man #1 |
| Eric E. Marable, Jr. as | Man #2 |