Fifty-Fifty (a full length comedy)

Cast: 3m, ages 30-35, 2f, ages 30 and 50

• Winner of the Carol Weinberg Award for Best Play at the 2003 Baltimore Playwrights Festival, Fifty-Fifty is the story of Scott Wheeler, the headmaster of Thwaite Academy, who appears to have everything: the perfect job, the perfect wife, the perfect dog...until an old friend shows up and forces him to come to grips with his past, present and future.

• The Baltimore City Paper wrote, “Fifty-Fifty is an unabashed comedy that jumps out of the gate with crisp authority and is propelled though its dramatic turns by clever wordplay and zingy one-liners. Espey believes in his pen, and what it has turned out is a sparkling traipse through the prickly politics of bisexuality.”

• The Baltimore Sun wrote, “Rich Espey's Fifty-Fifty examines hypocrisy, sexual orientation and appearances vs. reality. And, it tackles these weighty themes with wit and humor... In addition to swift plotting and character development, the playwright also displays a knack for clever turns of phrase [and] unfurls his plot complications with the sure hand of a farceur.”

• Produced at the Audrey Herman Spotlighter’s Theatre, August 8 – 23, 2003. Directed by Neal Freeman. (www.spotlighters.org)

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