LOGLINE: An obstinate father insists his daughter marry a rich but foolish young man. But she loves another. The lovers escape to a ghost town where illusion and reality, past and present, serious and absurd mix.
GHOST TOWN, NM (New Mexico) is a cocktail mix of Shakespeare’s plays, ghosts (real and imaginary), language and images from Dungeons and Dragons, “Painted Ladies” in the Sassy Ladies Cat House, serial killers, gunslingers, a team of totally incompetent private investigators, and much more! Throughout this comedy, characters explore what is real, what imaginary.
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ADI
An African proverb says, Those in love with illusion refuse to accept reality.
YURI
That Russian . . . again!
Kia takes both their hands.
KIA
And an African proverb says, He who forgives ends the argument.
Yuri and Adi laugh and hug.
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