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About "Gothic Tale"

Lukas Leonards is the brash arrogant banker to the gangsters of 1920s New York.  He’s sure he’s going places; he’s successful and invincible.  He uses and discards people without remorse.  But, Lukas has dark fears and, as the Devil conjures up a demon rat to haunt him, Lukas becomes frantic with fear and he is driven to the depths of insanity and despair. The Devil offers Lukas a deal and Lukas accepts the price: his soul.  The Devil keeps his word...

Play Excerpts

Copyright Robert Reed All rights are strictly reserved.

LEONARDS: Hi, Honey... What’s eating you? Okay, so I forgot Jimmy’s birthday. I’ll take him to the Red Sox game. He’ll forgive me. Listen I can’t make it home this weekend: I’m just going to have to work all weekend. I need to meet with some important clients. You understand, Honey... Honey? (Slowly lowers the phone.) It’ll cost me a diamond ring this time.

NARRATOR: I cared about money and power. I didn’t care about my family. I certainly didn’t care about the 42% Americans below the poverty line. I was invincible...  Until Hell came scurrying for me.

(KNOCKING on the door...)  
...

LEONARDS: Sure, Janette. (Leonards starts to prepare a sandwich.)

NARRATOR: ‘Sure, Janette’. Lukas Leonards doesn’t fix sandwiches. My emotions were a violent maelstrom: from blind panic to anger in 30 seconds. I was going to call Madden: Flint had some more work on his capable hands. My conscience had now evaporated. I don’t make sandwiches.

...

NARRATOR: The spell was broken. I attacked with my book: the complete works of Shakespeare.

...

Copyright Robert Reed All rights are strictly reserved.

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