I have an idea for a play about a family who runs a laundrette; the eldest son works through the night, where he gets high on the fumes from the dry-cleaning machine, and ends up ruining an entire overnight run of laundry for the local hospital when he puts it by mistake into a large vat of green Rit. It's working title is Laundry's Journey into Night. Of course the son dyes in the end.

Somewhat along the same lines, I was in Germany some years ago when the film The Longest Day opened there. I couldn't understand why it was such a smash hit until I went to the cinema and discovered they were running it in reverse.




TEd