The setting: a garden outside a
church. A lovely bride stumbles towards her guests, the
audience. Is Susan late for her wedding? Not only that,
but she's sporting a nasty fatal head wound which she brushes
aside like all ‘negative thoughts': This bride is
determined to live out her happily-ever-after ending.
And so begins a satirical look at the life of the happiness
obsessed modern bride.
At the moment Susan is taking her
final gasp the play turns on itself and a new character replaces
the old. The bride is replaced by the bridesmaid turned sexed-up
entrepreneur; sentiment is replaced by salesmanship, but the
fixation on a happy ending remains the same.
We find out that the bride's
today actually occurred ten years ago, brought to us by modern
technology designed to preserve memory long past “‘till
death do we part”. And so the audience is
left to contemplate how valuable memory is, and to what lengths
they would go to ensure their own
happily-ever-after-ending.
Sooz received critical praise and
one of the highest attendance rates of the 2001 Toronto Fringe
Festival. This one-woman show is accompanied by a live
musician. Universally appealing, Sooz is especially appealing
to women 35-50, and a younger adult crowd of both sexes. Running
under one hour, Sooz can be expanded in length for a mainstage
production. Originally set outdoors, Sooz can easily be
adapted to an indoor venue, or staged outside a theatre for a
unique setting.
A SATIRE
It's Susan's wedding day
Unfortunately she's dead, and everyone knows it-but
Susan. She's one stubborn bride. Susan's
determined to enjoy her nuptials despite her untimely demise.
But who's the woman in patent-leather hot pants giving the
story a happily-ever after ending?
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