The Bonus Room.
Three notorious white-collar criminals --
an ex-financier, a former Major League baseball great, and a disgraced politician -- are offered reduced jail terms if they subject themselves to testing a new mind-control drug that the government hopes will help win the War on Terror.
The convicts conspire to hoodwink their government handler, a lonely female psychiatrist, but their scheme is sidetracked by the effects of the drug and their own longing for redemption.
A light-hearted look at our delusions about celebrity and success, The Bonus Room asks whether we can ever recover from the widespread loss of trust now plaguing the country.
The Bonus Room
Written by James Sheldon
Directed by Thomas Gruenewald at
The Copake Grange Theater, NY
September - October, 2012
The Lakeville (CT) Journal:
"a neat play about American hopes and dreams particularly larcenous ones."
