A Fistful of Mondays

A FISTFUL OF MONDAYS
Published (as a play without music) by J. Garnet Miller
Cressrelles Publishing Co. Ltd
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CAST OF CHARACTERS

The Divorcee

Tom Jones
Forty something, divorced and out of the social and dating loop for longer than is decent for a grown man.

The Teacher

Annie
Similar age to Tom. Has moved back to the Walbeswick area after a divorce and years of living in the city.

The Barman

Barry
The Club Steward and bar manager, attempting to revive the flagging ‘Monday night’ fortunes of the Walbeswick Sports and Social Club.

The Dancers

Clint
Or Ronald as he is known the rest of the week.
Duncan
A gentle soul in touch with his feminine side..okay, gay and a good dancer.
Sophie
A frustrated fifty something in need of the physical release that linedancing brings.
Mary
A woman of advancing years dancing while she still can.
Carol
No matter how hard she tries the moves just won’t go in and stay in.

SYNOPSIS

Tom Jones spends his evenings singing karaoke to an empty Walbeswick Sports and Social Club. Not the most exciting existence and hardly making an effort to get back on the social scene since his divorce. His world and that of Steward and bar manager Barry are turned upside down by the arrival of The Monday Night All Star Linedancing Club, who Barry has offered the club as rehearsal space in a vain attempt to drum up more business. Somehow, despite his lack of practise, Tom eventually stumbles his way into a romance with Annie, the dance teacher, but this is soon in trouble as Tom faces his past demons. The linedancing group encounter trouble of their own in the form of a traitor in their midst. Duncan’s love and flair for tap dancing as well as linedancing splits the groups and threatens their future as they prepare for a big linedancing weekend

A copy of the script is available on request.

THE SONGS

  1. Dance the Night Away
    By the Mavericks
  2. Redneck Woman
    By Gretchen Wilson
  3. A Thing Called Love
    By Johnny Cash
  4. If I Said you had a Beautiful Body
    By The Bellamy Brothers
  5. Thank God I’m a Country Boy
    By John Denver
  6. Annie’s Song
    By John Denver
  7. When you’re Hot You’re Hot
    By Jerry Reed
  8. This Kiss
    By Faith Hill
  9. When you’re Hot You’re Hot
    By Jerry Reed
  10. Marcetta
    Ennio Morricone
    From the original motion picture soundtrack of
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  11. Man, I Feel Like a Woman
    By Shania Twain
  12. Il Buono, Il Cattivo, Il Brutto
    Ennio Morricone
    From the original motion picture soundtrack of
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  13. Stand by Your Man
    By Tammy Wynette
  14. Ring of Fire
    By Johnny Cash
    As version by Kimber Clayton
  15. I Hope You Dance
    By Lee Ann Womack
  16. Islands in the Stream
    By Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
  17. Crazy
    By Patsy Cline
  18. The Magnificent Seven
    From the original motion picture soundtrack of
    The Magnificent Seven
  19. Rhinestone Cowboy
    By Glen Campbell
  20. Achy Breaky Heart
    By Billy Ray Cyrus