THE PITEOUS LIFE AND TRAGICAL DEATH OF STEVE THE INTERN 

DIRECTED BY KEVIN CLINE, WRITTEN BY MAD FACTORY ALUM DAN TAKACS

WHO: Adults and teens ages 16+

WHEN: Sunday August 23rd from 2-4pm -or- Monday August 24th from 7-9pm.  No need to sign up for a slot, just come during either day to be seen. 

VIDEOS: Video submissions also accepted, please email to: themadfactorytheatreco@gmail.com.  If video is too big to attach you can send a youtube link or google drive link.  

WHERE: 2655 Broadway Ave, Lorain, OH 44055

PREPARE: Comedic monologue 1 minute or less.  Shakespeare preferred but not required!  If you don't have a monologue chosen, you can use the one from the play copied below.

Performances are at our Lorain location, 2655 Broadway Ave, October 23rd through 25th.  

Use this monologue if you don't have one in mind:

O, for a bard to whet our blunted eyes! For kings and minotaurs and gods, For monstrous men and shipwreck'd ships, Success against thrice deathly odds. Such horrors and delights I'd preach To hold your breaths upon my lips, But gods and monsters are all dead, And heroines beyond our reach. But, if your pardon we may beg, These humble artisans and I Have toil'd ourselves to learn a play Which may the meanwhile please thine eye. No honor will you find, nor glory Within nigh modern tales we'll sing, Yet evil's still within our story For evil did survive the death of kings. It is a tale of overthrows And poisons, crowns and thrones and pacts, Of loves to out-woo Cyrano, Of motives true, and sinful acts. So hark and listen, if we have your leave, A tale of interns vile and low: The tale of murd'rous Steve!

Playwright bio:  Dan Takacs is an award-winning, non-binary, neurodivergent, Jewish playwright, screenwriter, director, and public school drama teacher from Oberlin, Ohio. Their original plays have been seen at The Riant Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, Boston Playwright's Theatre, the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, and the Rogue Theatre Festival. Dan received a BA in Drama and English from Kenyon College, and earned an MFA in Theatre Education from Boston University, with a concentration in playwriting and directing. They won the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language for the play "The Piteous Life and Tragical Death of Steve the Intern," the Peter Honegger Prize and the Theatre Network of Texas Production of Original Plays Award for "An Institution," and won the OANO Award for directing “Know Abuse.” Favorite directing projects include "The Millennials" (CPT), "The 39 Steps" (Chagrin Valley Little Theatre), and "The Adventurous Adventuress" (Dobama). Dan lives with their wife Linda, daughter Greta, and the twins, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Play description:  Steve the Intern is the lowest creature working at Duncan’s Buckets. After being humiliated by Duncan, Steve sets out to make himself CEO — even if that means he needs to murder his way up the corporate ladder. In the end, Steve must decide what is most important to his ambition or connection.

Cast of characters: 

Duncan’s Buckets

Duncan: 50s-90s, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board.
Anne: 50s-70s, Chief Financial Officer, under Duncan.
Roderick: 30s-60s, Head of Production, under Duncan.
Kent: 30s-60s, Chief Operating Officer, under Anne.
Eliza: 20s, General Manager, under Roderick.
James: 20s, Intern to Roderick and Eliza.
Steve: 20s, Intern to Anne and Kent.
Kyle: 30s-50s, Head of Human resources.
A Friar
Board Members, Interns, and Attendants.

Guildspersons:

Dick: a Guildsman Policeman.
Margaret: a Guildswoman Cook. Cockney dialect.
Cockney Tom: a Guildsman Janitor. Cockney dialect.
Meek: a Guildsperson Stage Manager.
Actor Laurence: a Guildsman Actor. English RP dialect.
Stoner Stu: a Guildsman Warehouse Worker at Duncan's Buckets. Stoner dialect.
Additional Guildspersons.

Gloucester's Twenty-Ducat Buckets:

Gloucester: 50s-70s, President of Gloucester's Buckets, a hunchback.
The Bucketheads: Gloucester’s mute soldiers.

Ethereal Storytellers

Prologue: played by the same actor as Duncan.