Tower Of Magic
Tess Light
Genre: Comedy
Cast size: 7
Duration: Full Length
Tess Light | Comedy | Full-length | 4m, 3f
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Sue McFate is finding it difficult to announce her engagement. For one thing, her family has never once heard she has a boyfriend. For another, her intended husband doesn’t even know her real name. Sue has come home to make the problematic announcement, but finds herself stymied when she realizes that her fiancé, Felix, will be a huge disappointment to her family.
When Felix pays an unexpected visit to the family home, in order to hurry her along, he meets his potential in-laws, who include an obsessive ornithologist, a compulsive mezzo soprano, a murderous chef, an occasionally-mute savant and a split-personality linguist. This crowd won’t be terribly impressed by Sue’s choice: Felix is (yawn) a civil engineer.
The McFate family objects less to Felix personally than to Sue’s desire to fit in with the world at large, when she is a gifted artist (magical, in fact) with the power to transform ordinary reality, manifesting tangible joy. The McFate family resents the pressures of convention, which they see in Felix’s ordinary person. Felix, for his part, can’t believe his betrothed came from a group of such dubious sanity.
In frustration with herself, her family, and Felix, Sue retires into the woods whose serenity allowed her child self to generate her magical creations. When her family and Felix have nearly come to blows debating what kind of life is actually better for Sue, she arrives and presents her latest creation. With her restoration thus ensured, all rifts are healed.
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