copyright © 1989

Performed by Greg Jackson, Amy Lynn Pigott, Diana Dawson

In the spring of '87, I had written a piece for Michael Wells, Juliet Cella and Fred Norberg called The Life & Death of Squeaky McKlean. During that piece, I dropped the script from the grid onto the unsuspecting actors, who had been instructed simply to meet onstage and be ready for anything.

After that, Greg Jackson often told me that he wished he could be in a piece like that if I ever did one again, but that he knew that the whole point was that the actors didn't know what was going to happen, so he could never be in a piece like that, because he would already know what to expect, so never mind.

The Life & Death of Squeaky McKlean, Part II was my attempt to solve that puzzle.

Three actors - Greg Jackson, Amy Lynn Pigott and Diana Dawson - were instructed to meet onstage and be ready for anything. Michael Wells handed each of them a manila envelope. This is the script they found inside:

Warning: heavy graphics. Click on each page to go to the next.

[Footnote: Frank Ensenberger actually wrote a lot of the dialogue on the last 3 pages.]

"The Life & Death of Squeaky McKlean, Part 2" debuted March 3, 1989, with the following cast:

Greg Jackson
Amy Pigott
Diana Dawson

and with brief introductions by Jeff Goode & Mike Wells

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