The Quarantine Players is a group of playwrights, actors and directors who meet once a week to read new plays and classic favorites. To watch the video recording of this production go to: https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers
ANIMAL CONTROL takes place in a small town Animal Control Bureau. Kim Hawkins has been promoted to Animal Control chief and finds the pressure of the job and the animal euthanasia duties particularly onerous. Day in and out she deals with issues like animal cruelty, abandonment, and negligence. The play opens with the Bureau's teenage receptionist Corrine Lowell (Journey Entzminger) slouching in her chair, playing with her cell phone, giving Chief Hawkins much attitude, which the chief is too flustered to combat.
The play revolves around Don Stanley's dog, Bailey, a Pit Bull. The Bureau has had many complaints of Bailey being out of control and attacking other dogs.
Marc Hanson comes in to lodge a complaint that Bailey has attacked his dog Winnie (short for Winston (like Churchill)), a Goldendoodle.
The chief calls in Stanley and confrontation ensue. A Ms. Smith later comes in and makes a similar complaint that Bailey has attacked her cats often with no governmental action. Stanley reveals that Bailey was raised to be a "Bait Dog," used to be a sparring partner for prize fighting dogs. Bailey has in fact been horribly abused by everyone but Mr. Stanley. He just cannot control Bailey. At the play's tragic end, he admits that Bailey may be a "bad" dog.
NO. THERE ARE NO BAD DOGS. Or children. Just bad parents.
Written by Chandler Hubbard
Directed by Chelsea Burke
KIM- Katrinah Carol Lewis
CORINNE- Nancy Collie
MARC- Adam Turck
DAN- Aaron Orensky
PATTY- Addie Barnhart
