American Detour
(Work in Progress. Interested producers should contact the playwright's agent, Pam Winter.)
At night I’d close my eyes and see nothing. Just black. I’d fall asleep. And when I next opened my eyes, you know what I’d see? The next day. Not a new day. Just the next one.
- Terry - American Detour
1975. A young man wakes up and realizes he has no dream. He looks south and sees a land that is apparently chock-full of them. So Terry sticks out his thumb and hitch-hikes over the border. Within a week, he has a career, a lover and a new home in the middle of a burning city.
1975. A young man wakes up and realizes he has no dream. He looks south and sees a land that is apparently chock-full of them. So Terry sticks out his thumb and hitch-hikes over the border. Within a week, he has a career, a lover and a new home in the middle of a burning city.
2011. Terry is once again standing on the side of a highway, thumb out. As it turned out, the Dream included an amazing discovery, a horrific murder, an award-winning film, a sympathetic shrink, and a Pardon. Now Terry has to decide if he’s going to flee the scene – or take another crack at the dangerous business of dreaming.
American Detour is an outsider’s look at life on the inside. It has a cast of two, and runs 85 minutes.
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