Butch MaxwellPlaywright

An evening of three black comedies · by Butch Maxwell

Collateral Collection

One Rust Belt town.
A twenty-year-old night nobody’s
finished paying for.

Available as individual plays or together as one evening.

Three plays. One unfinished debt.

A woman tries to redeem a knife before the pawn shop locks. A widow tries to collect on a policy before anyone finds the note. And on a Thursday in June, a young man makes the one honest decision of his life — and the town makes sure no one ever knows.

01 / APPROXIMATELY 55 MINUTESTalbot Pawn and Loan near closing time in Unredeemed.

Unredeemed

A woman is three dollars short of reclaiming a pawned hunting knife. Then an old friend recognizes it.

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02 / APPROXIMATELY 50 MINUTESFuneral food and insurance paperwork fill the Pruitt kitchen in Contestable.

Contestable

The funeral is over. Before the insurance representative arrives at five, three people need to get their story straight.

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03 / APPROXIMATELY 15 MINUTESThe three simultaneous playing areas of Accountable: the lodge office, police outstation, and parking lot.

Accountable

During the Thursday fish fry, a missing bank bag connects a lodge office, a police outstation, and a young man sitting in his car.

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Production inquiries

Produce one play.
Or bring the town together.

The three plays are available separately or as Collateral Collection, in the order Unredeemed, Contestable, Accountable. Approximately 120 minutes of playing time, before intervals.

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For excerpts, complete-script links, and individual casting and staging details, explore each play above.