Plays by Louis Phillips

this collection contains six one-acts: BONE THE SPEED, CARWASH, CONRAD ON THE VINE, ETHIOPIA, THE MAN WHO ATE EINSTEIN'S BRAIN, & PRECISION MACHINES. Louis Phillips is one the most inventive and imaginative playwrights in the United States: BONE THE SPEED. A spoof about the ultimate snake-pit: Hollywood. With a nod to David Mamet's SPEED-THE-PLOW, and any number of other works on that subject. 2 M, 1 F. CARWASH. A comic surrealistic nightmare when a man's car disappears at the carwash. 2 M, 1 F. CONRAD ON THE VINE. Imagine Joseph Conrad alive today and being interviewed on a television talk-show. 3 M, 1 F. ETHIOPIA. A totalitarian future where food is so scarce that people pay to watch others eat. Cast: 2 M, 1 F (nuclear family), plus a waiter. THE MAN WHO ATE EINSTEIN'S BRAIN. The title of this play says it all. 2 M, 1 F. PRECISION MACHINES. Inanimate objects take on a life of their own. 1 M, 1 F.