Mickey's Teeth & Bindle Stiff

The Perfessor, a social scientist, hired her for his social research on the lives and habits of hobos. First, Bertha was to relate her own life story: from her childhood in Kansas, to a socialist farm during World War I, to being a prostitute

But recently the Perfessor has asked her to go back on the road and the rails to gather more information for his book. After three more trips out, however, Bertha is feeling used. She's here to tell the Perfessor she has decided to quit and go back to the life she knows

Bindle Stiff is a somber character sketch which makes for a good pre-show, curtain raiser

"This monologue also sends up flares of humor, authenticity and thoughtful social commentary" ~ Milwaukee Journal

Cast of 1 woman

In Mickey's Teeth, Steve, a former Mousketeer, is drinking spiked coffee in a coffee shop in Riverside, California, brooding over his failures as a salesman

Being a Mousketeer has opened some doors, it has also proved to be a detriment. As Steven says, "when it comes to closing, they just won't hand an ex-Mouse a four-figure check"

He is waiting in the coffee shop to meet another former Mouse, but when Leah arrives, wearing her mouse ears, he does not recognize her

After questioning her, Steven determines that she was not a true Mouse, but a girl who lived on a farm in Nebraska that two of the Mouseketeers visited as part of several episodes

The show, however, had tragic consequences for Leah's life, resulting in the deaths of her entire family, and now, embittered, Leah has become a "Mouseketerrorist

" She claims to have a bomb and is ready to kill them both. Only the timely arrival of the Blue Fairy saves Steve's life, and furthermore, she gives him the opportunity to exchange his past life for a new one

Mickey's Teeth, first produced at Milwaukee Rep, is a comic look at the dark side of the life of a former Mouseketeer

"Amlin Gray's darkly funny Mickey's Teeth contains two prize monologues that reveal the consequences of Mousketeer celebrity" ~ Jay Joslyn, Milwaukee Sentinel

Cast of 1 man and 2 women