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The Surprise

Author: Martin Dockery

The Surprise is a comic, true monologue about a man exploring the expansive ruins of an ancient, powerful world as his own small world — his family, his girlfriend — is busy collapsing into a set of equally spectacular ruins.  

What exactly can we rely on in today's world with its rapidly dissolving foundations? As our nation threatens to crumble into ruin, and our sense of national identity begins to fray, we are faced with either radically accepting and reorienting, or giving ourselves over to history.

These days, particularly, we like to think we at least have our family to rely on. But whose family is truly reliable? The Surprise is the funny story of trying to keep it all together as everything falls apart.

Martin Dockery, creator/performer