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Dead Wait
by Carson Kreitzer
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GENRE Dark comedy/drama
LENGTH Short, 35-40 minutes
CAST 1 female, 2 males
SET Simple unit set, ideally a black box.
NOTES Adult language
Languishing in Limbo, two dead waiters and Jayne Mansfield share the intimate details of their lives, and the violent tragedies that brought them to their current state. A sly and haunting meditation on being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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"Kreitzer's piece brilliantly eavesdrops on this trio and their randomly poignant, puerile, psychotic reminiscences of young lives lost."
--Deborah Caulfield Rybak, Star Tribune (Minnesota)
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Awards  Perishable Theater Women's Playwriting Festival, 1999
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  • "Dead Wait" by Carson Kreitzer. Dead Wait, Emigrant Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2005). Photo: Jennie Batten.
    Dead Wait, Emigrant Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2005). Photo: Jennie Batten.
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