LOVE’S A THIN DIET
by Amy Losi
Aphra publishes an article detrimental to her ex-husband, Professor Oliver Randall, and he confronts her about it. Did Oliver help Aphra or did he take advantage of her, as she asserts in her article? Aphra brings up the past and how a much-older Oliver manipulated her when she was his student. She accuses him of exerting his power over his female students and blurring the line between seduction and consent. Catharine, another former student of Oliver’s, arrives and together the women recount how Oliver seduced his students with wine and sex games. The women warn him that they have told the college what he has done but Oliver refuses to admit his behavior was improper and he leaves. Helen, the department chair at Oliver’s college, appears in Oliver’s office shortly after with a plan of her own.
- Cast Size: 1M 3W
- Running Time: 30 minutes
- Royalty rate: $40 per performance
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About the Playwright
Amy Losi is an actor, director, and playwright. Her plays have been selected for numerous festivals, and won multiple awards. Her Zoom comedy “Don’t Stand Up!” won the 2020 Spirit of the Hartford Fringe Festival award. She won “Best Female Screenwriter” and “Best Female Centre Film” for the film version of her play, “No Fall My Hand.” She received a bronze scriptwriting award for the film version of her play, “Love’s a Thin Diet,” and her two leads won awards for “Best Actor” and “Best Actress.” Her plays have appeared in the Strawberry One Act Festivals, Chain One Act Festival, NY Theatre Festival, Dream Up Festivals, Rogue Theater Festivals, Powerstories’ Voices of Women Theatre Festival, Spark Creative Works Womens Playwrighting Festival, Hartford Fringe Festival, Rochester Fringe Festival, and the Fifth Avenue Theatre Play Festival. Her full-length plays premiered at Theater for the New City and American Theatre of Actors in NYC. Amy is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the New Play Exchange. As an actress, Amy has appeared in over ninety plays, as well as commercials, independent films, and TV. You can read more about her at https://www.amylosi.net/
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