The Play's the Thing

The Keaton kids are dismayed when the local playhouse agree to stage Steven's radical 60's college play, "A Draft Card for the Burning". Embarrassed by the script's laughably dated hippie lingo, they are not surprised when Elyse refuses to reprise her leading role as Sequola Free, the play's sexy activist/anthropology student. Crushed by her decision, Steven goes off in a huff to cast another actress. But after numerous fruitless auditions, Elyse finally succumbs to Steven's wishes. Just as she predicts, Steven becomes insanely jealous of her leading man and finds it impossible to separate his dual roles as husband and director. Elyse and her co-star, local dentist Jeff Cooper, grow frustrated with Steven, who keeps changing the script to avoid any intimacy between them.

Steven hat vor Jahren ein Theaterstück geschrieben. Die Hauptrolle darin spielte Elyse. Das Stück aber stand nur kurz auf dem Spielplan. Schuld war Autor Steven, der damals eifersüchtig jeden anging, der seiner Elyse zu nahe kam. Jetzt soll das alte Stück wieder zu Ehren kommen.