SIX WOMEN WITH BRAIN DEATH or Expiring Minds Want to Know Music and lyrics by Mark Houston, written by Cheryl Benge, Christy Brandt, Rosanna E. Coppedge, Valerie Fagan, Ross Fresse, Mark Houston, Sandee Johnson, Peggy Pharr Wilson SYNOPSIS Overweight Prom Queen Candidate Loses Crown! Housewife Keeps Severed Head On Cake Plate! Bambi Goes Haywire in Forest With Uzi! To the expiring mind of a modern American woman, life can read like a tabloid headline. A fast-paced, take-no-prisoners satire of life and pop culture at the end of the millennium, “Six Women With Brain Death” is a wild and very left-of-centre view of the world from an entirely feminine standpoint. In a series of bizarre but hysterical songs and sketches, the authors explore TV soap operas, “genuine press-on nails,” Barbie and Ken’s secret fantasy life, divas, a unique and new way of recycling, and what “is” and “is not” feminine – with an unforgettable detour through a forest where Bambi meets Rambo. Definitely not for the faint-hearted, “Six Women With Brain Death” is a hard rockin’, harder talking’ cult classic. This wild and womanly 'right-on' look at our contemporary culture has already become a cult classic in the USA. Tackling a large range of subjects from "genuine press-on nails" to Barbi and Ken with detours through a forest where Bambi meets Rambo and severed heads from aging prom queens have a chatty after-life decapitation, Six Women With Brain Death is a hard-rockin', harder-talkin' (the language is appropriate to the "grown-up" material and we disclaim all responsibility) six-woman roller-coaster ride through the end of the millennium, but the scattered firing finds its targets with uncanny accuracy! Songs include "David, Don't Fly Lufthansa", "Prom Queen" and "Rambi". STORY ACT ONE As houselights fade, ominous sounds are improvised by the band. Once the house is dark, the sounds swell to the downbeat of the opening and a series of headlines are recited directly to the audience. Included amongst these are: "Bizarre Disease Makes Woman Eat Kitchen Sink!" "Mom Sells Twins To Buy Lottery Tickets," and "Cannibal Cow Eats Hamburger." Basically, this opening shows the ridiculous nature of life and how attempting to fit in is what life is all about. The music winds down like a failing phonograph and the six women speak directly to the audience. The fragmented conversations dovetail and occasionally become simultaneous on specific words. These fragments include everything from press-on nails to the theory of gravity, showing that all things are possible and not possible at the same time. These women welcome the audience to "the world of expiring minds - a snappy little revue about the collapse of culture, the demise of language and meaning, and the anxiety of lives cut loose from their moorings and set adrift on a sea of medical wastes." The show is a series of sketches with songs: ALL MY HOSPITALS Wanda is sitting at her kitchen table watching her favourite soap opera, "All My Hospitals." Her hair is in rollers, she has a cigarette in her mouth, and she is clutches a bottle of gin. She watches intently as she follows Veronica, the star of the soap opera who is revealing to her lover a plot finale which has been dragging on for months. Wanda watches intently and is furious when the show is interrupted with a special report about the Ozone layer. She grabs the phone and calls to complain, but almost simultaneously, the programme is restored and she missed the crucial information she was waiting for.
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