“We must inject new blood into this series. Get rid of old crones,” says the director to the producer.
Elvira’s sure they don’t mean her. She’s a famous television actor. But her script for the next episode is murder.
“The end of my forty-year career,” she howls to her agent, Seb.
“You’re a professional. Give it everything.”
She does terror, shrieking, groaning, whimpering as her character’s stabbed to death.
Seb holds her reviews aloft. “Fabulous, sweetie.”
“Never mind that. I need to carry on working.”
“At your age?”
“Royal Shakespeare Company, darling. There’re parts for old crones in The Scottish Play.”
I enjoyed reading this. I seem to recall Shakespeare did not write any roles for women – they were all played by men! So ageist no, sexist? Well he was of his time.
I loved it. Intelligently humorous. Tragicomedy.
Trite and underwritten.
Clever, tight and covers a lot of ground in 101 words. Thanks for sharing.