Six Characters in Search of a Play

By: Amos Lassen

"SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A PLAY"
Eccentrics and Life
Amos Lassen
In "Six Characters in Search of a Play", director Del brings us six one-of-a-kind characters that he has met in real life and shares how he collected these eccentrics and their stories. The film comes out of the imagination of the director as he looks at daily events in the lives of the characters. This was originally a one-man show. It begins with Shores telling us that the characters are people he has met in his life and then he exaggerates them as we meet one man and five women. Aunt Bobby Sue is a Republican racist with a "heart of gold"; Yvonne is an anti-vegetarian waitress who rants; Sarah is a Trump-hating elderly actress who is a smoker and drinker who uses an inhaler; Jimmy Ray is a redneck from Georgia who loves Magic Mike; Lorraine was once a drama teacher obsessed with porn; Marsha is a "monkey-hating" lesbian with COPD. All of them are larger-than-life Southerners and Shores breathes life into them. It is obvious that Shores loves these characters and by the time the film is over, so do we.