Story VIII: The Complete One-Scene Plays of Adam Nathan (Works from 1965 – 2024)

The comprehensive collection of one-scene plays curated from original manuscripts. An essential treasure for aficionados, including unearthed gems from the private archives of Adam Nathan.

The Complete One-Scene Plays of Adam Nathan
(Works from 1965 – 2024)

Table of Contents

1. Mrs. Thomas Edison & The Invention of the Electric Lightbulb

2. Lobster Dinner (or How I Met Your Mother)

3. Thirty Tiny Polar Bears

Characters:

• Mrs. Thomas “Mina” Edison

• Mr. Thomas Edison

Scene 1:

Well before dawn. An inventor’s workshop. It is pitch black other than the red light of the EXIT signs in the theater, which is unfortunate. Possibly, a few diehards are still on their cellphones, compounding the problem.

Mrs. Thomas Edison, Mina, enters the workshop of Mr. Thomas Edison, Thomas, or simply Tom, stage right. Her nightwear is whatever nightwear was in vogue on the evening of October 21, 1879, the day the electric lightbulb was invented.

Mina fumbles with a small box of matches, touches the tip to a gaslight, it shoots out a flame of a good three or four feet. The mezzanine should be able to feel the heat on their faces. Mina dials down the flame …