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    The Man Who Wanted to Come to Dinner
    The Man Who Wanted to Come to Dinner
    The Man Who Wanted to Come to Dinner
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    The Man Who Wanted to Come to Dinner

    By Richard von Fuchs

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    We see the wretched of the earth on TV. What if they could come into our comfortable living rooms and demand a more just distribution of food?
    In this play a group of New Age friends are trying to reach higher consciousness when a hungry man from the Third World arrives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard von Fuchs
    Release dateDec 29, 2013
    ISBN9781311305909
    The Man Who Wanted to Come to Dinner
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    Richard von Fuchs

    Dr. Richard von Fuchs was born in St. Louis, grew up in Niagara Falls, New York. He graduated from the University of Colorado and the University of Rhode Island, and much later from the University of Vienna. After teaching high school in Rhode Island and Ontario, he settled on Vancouver Island in 1971. The BC NDP (social democrats) hired him as an organizer and he became a Canadian citizen.He had walk-on parts as a fisherman, tree planter, a radio and TV news announcer, including CBC Prince Rupert, retail music store owner and piano tuner. The habit of door knocking in political campaigns led to several years as a door to door salesman.He trod the boards in amateur theatre and musicals in Courtenay, B.C in the 1970s, and then sang in some Folk Festivals and isolated bars. Twice went to Japan to teach English.His former wife, Betty, took excellent care of him.In 1990 he moved to Western Hungary to teach English at a forestry college and earned a PhD at the University of Vienna. Abandoning 33 years of atheism, he returned to the Lutheran church, and became a church janitor in Scarsdale, New York for 18 months, while teaching at Iona College. He was a Green party candidate in Ontario in 2OO3.Returning to Europe, he was employed at the University of West Hungary until 2014, settled in a bourgeois suburb of Sopron, Hungary. He has a Hungarian wife, Etelka, and a son Maximilian, born in 1996.

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      The Man Who Wanted to Come to Dinner - Richard von Fuchs

      THE MAN WHO WANTED TO COME TO DINNER

      by

      Richard von Fuchs

      Copyright 2013 by Richard von Fuchs

      Smashwords Edition

      Cast:

      Pat, overweight, 35

      Susan, his wife, nervous, intense

      Audrey, very West Coast mellow

      Dave, easy going New Age enthusiast

      Achmed, from Somalia, polite, but starving

      The scene is in the living room of a split level house in Comox, British Columbia in 1980.

      (Pat is watching TV. The set is at right angles to the audience, at the edge of the curtain. The audience cannot see the screen but only the side of the set. He is methodically eating Nachos one at a time. Susan enters.)

      Susan: Pat! Lay off those Nachos!

      Pat: What’s the matter?

      Susan: Your gut is going to hang out like a hippo if you aren’t careful.

      Pat: You are beautiful enough for both of us. (Susan glares at

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