Mardy & Son
Synopsis & Cast of Characters
Three generations of the Mardy family are knitted together by a series of incompetent occurrences, giving rise to lies, deceit and murderous acts. In this morbidly twisted tale, the grandson of the original owner finds out who his real mother was and the circumstances surrounding her death. It’s all too much for the patricidal James Mardy Jnr., and his insanity now forces him to push a dummy, whom he believes to be his father, in a wheelchair to the cemetery where his mother lays; a tradition carried out each year on the anniversary of her death. There he relives the story that led him to kill his father.
DESCRIPTIONS OF MAIN CHARACTERS:
WILLIAM MARDY
(in later life), 61, thin with ailing health.
WILLIAM MARDY
(same character as above); 38; unattached; thin, gaunt, pale, suppressed personality; desperately wants his father to be proud of him.
JAMES MARDY Snr.
(father to William), 62; a strict man whose self-importance is all; whilst he appears to command the respect he so craves, many see him as a much weaker, self-centred individual.
JAMES MARDY Jnr.
(son of William Mardy), 23, slender, very much in his father’s mould.
SIDNEY BIDE
64; hearse driver, straight-laced, married for 44 years, portly with Vaseline-coated, brushed-back hair; takes his job very seriously and doesn’t have a good word to say about the youth of today. He harbours a very sinister secret fed by a troubled childhood.
ROBERT CULLEN
(AKA SKINK – Cullen Skink Soup); Geordie; 48; thin, roguish, loner; has spent most of his working life on the dole; easily influenced.
MICHAEL BERESFORD
34, athletic-build, likes his beer and has an eye for the women; will step on anyone in climbing the ladder of success and, as a result, often takes advantage of weaker people by bullying them into submission.
SHELLEY ANN FROBISHER
36, voluptuous and, upon the death of her much older husband, very wealthy; appears as though she’s an air-head but, in fact, is much more intelligent that people think.
QUENTIN MARKS
35, camp, articulate, at times arrogant and temperamental; genuinely cares about Shelley.
ELVIRA
30’s (exact age unknown), brash, cocky, unrefined and sarcastic; a cheap con-artist with wanderlust in her blood.
MR. WILBERFORCE
50’s, Ringmaster, obsessed by his own thriftiness; a naive rogue sadly lacking in compassion.
BEZOOMNEE (DAVVID)
40, over 6ft tall, bald head with scars and tattoos. Very aggressive, though has a submissive side, particularly when it comes to Elvira. He purports to being Russian but is, in fact, Welsh.
Three generations of the Mardy family are knitted together by a series of incompetent occurrences, giving rise to lies, deceit and murderous acts. In this morbidly twisted tale, the grandson of the original owner finds out who his real mother was and the circumstances surrounding her death. It’s all too much for the patricidal James Mardy Jnr., and his insanity now forces him to push a dummy, whom he believes to be his father, in a wheelchair to the cemetery where his mother lays; a tradition carried out each year on the anniversary of her death. There he relives the story that led him to kill his father.
DESCRIPTIONS OF MAIN CHARACTERS:
WILLIAM MARDY
(in later life), 61, thin with ailing health.
WILLIAM MARDY
(same character as above); 38; unattached; thin, gaunt, pale, suppressed personality; desperately wants his father to be proud of him.
JAMES MARDY Snr.
(father to William), 62; a strict man whose self-importance is all; whilst he appears to command the respect he so craves, many see him as a much weaker, self-centred individual.
JAMES MARDY Jnr.
(son of William Mardy), 23, slender, very much in his father’s mould.
SIDNEY BIDE
64; hearse driver, straight-laced, married for 44 years, portly with Vaseline-coated, brushed-back hair; takes his job very seriously and doesn’t have a good word to say about the youth of today. He harbours a very sinister secret fed by a troubled childhood.
ROBERT CULLEN
(AKA SKINK – Cullen Skink Soup); Geordie; 48; thin, roguish, loner; has spent most of his working life on the dole; easily influenced.
MICHAEL BERESFORD
34, athletic-build, likes his beer and has an eye for the women; will step on anyone in climbing the ladder of success and, as a result, often takes advantage of weaker people by bullying them into submission.
SHELLEY ANN FROBISHER
36, voluptuous and, upon the death of her much older husband, very wealthy; appears as though she’s an air-head but, in fact, is much more intelligent that people think.
QUENTIN MARKS
35, camp, articulate, at times arrogant and temperamental; genuinely cares about Shelley.
ELVIRA
30’s (exact age unknown), brash, cocky, unrefined and sarcastic; a cheap con-artist with wanderlust in her blood.
MR. WILBERFORCE
50’s, Ringmaster, obsessed by his own thriftiness; a naive rogue sadly lacking in compassion.
BEZOOMNEE (DAVVID)
40, over 6ft tall, bald head with scars and tattoos. Very aggressive, though has a submissive side, particularly when it comes to Elvira. He purports to being Russian but is, in fact, Welsh.
