Michele Forsten, writer

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Ersatz Egg Salad
by Michele Forsten
 
A chance meeting between a Jewish lesbian and a woman she suspects of
being a Nazi is not what it appears to be.

1 act, 10 minutes. Drama

two women (one in her thirties/forties; one in her seventies)

Eva - 30s/40s. An intense New York City playwright, she is about to
attend a staged reading of one of her plays and is nervous about it. Casually
but smartly dressed.

Helga - late 60s/early 70s. Immigrated to the U.S. some years ago but still speaks with an accent. Kindly, matronly looking.

Spare set evoking the lobby of a theatre, with two small circular café tables with one chair at each.

Place
Medium-sized U.S. city

Time
Now

Productions & Awards:
2003 - finalist, Sonoma County Rep’s New Drama Works Scripts Festival
2002 - HER-rah! A Celebration of International Women's Day by the International Centre for Women Playwrights, Epiphany Theatre, New York
City (staged reading)